Nationally renowned civil rights and personal injury attorney Ben Crump and co-counsel Ray Hamlin held news conference on Tuesday 25 discussing bombshell developments in the alleged assassination conspiracy of Malcolm X, including information from a key witness who is speaking out for the first time and has objective evidence to corroborate the information he will share.
Speaking at the Audubon Ballroom on West 165th Street in Manhattan where Malcolm was killed, Crump said, “The government was involved in the conspiracy to kill Malcolm X.”
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Malcom X was assassinated on February 21, 1965, at age 39 while speaking at the Audubon Ballroom. He was shot a total of 21 times in front of his wife and daughters.
For years, theorists have believed that the government was involved in his death, and revelations in recent years have added more fuel to the fire. Statements from former Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance in 2021 that then-FBI Director J. Edgar Hoover ordered witnesses to not tell investigators they were federal informants have proved this.
In a court affidavit that was released to the public, Mustafa Hassan, 84, said he was a member of the Malcolm X’s Organization of African American Unity and was part of the security detail on the day of the fatal shooting. He said that after a “series of gunshots” at the Audubon Ballroom he encountered a man “running down the aisle towards the exit where I had been posted with a gun in his hand.”
Hassan claimed he knocked down the man, and identified him as Talmadge X. Hayer, the individual eventually convicted of the killing, along with two other men, Muhammad Aziz (aka Thomas Hagen) and Khalil Islam, who died in 2009.
Moments later, Hassan said he saw Hayer outside, and heard one police officer ask another, “Is he one of ours?” in reference to Hayer. That question, said Hassan, made it clear that Hayer was an informant. He had no doubt.
Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam, who died in 2009, were both exonerated in 2021.
In February of this year, attorneys for the family filed a notice of claim with intent to sue the NYPD and government agencies for the alleged assassination and fraudulent concealment of evidence surrounding Malcolm X’s murder.
