Fact check
Is it true: Malcolm X Assassination Conspiracy?
Partly — it's more complicated than the claim suggests.
Two of the three original convictions (Muhammad Aziz and Khalil Islam) were vacated and the men exonerated in November 2021, after the Manhattan DA's Conviction Integrity Unit found the FBI and NYPD had withheld exculpatory evidence. Talmadge Hayer confessed; his 1977 affidavit named four other co-conspirators (not Aziz or Islam). Foreknowledge of threats by authorities is now officially acknowledged. Direct government operational involvement in the assassination remains unestablished.
The claim
Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom in New York City. Three men were convicted: Talmadge Hayer (who confessed), Muhammad Aziz, and Khalil Islam. In November 2021, M
Key evidence
2021 exoneration: FBI and NYPD withheld exculpatory evidence
FBI foreknowledge does not establish direction of the assassination
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