Malcolm X assassin granted parole in New York

hosted ^ | Mar 19

[JoeProBono]

ALBANY, N.Y. (AP) -- One of three men convicted of killing Malcolm X 45 years ago has been granted release from weekends in prison in his 17th appearance before a state parole board.

The State Division of Parole says 69-year-old Thomas Hagan appeared before a parole panel March 3 and was granted release effective April 28.

[popdonnelly]

Everyone knows that except the paranoid urban legend believers, who will tell you he was shot by the CIA. Also a few people who just lie intentionally.

If Malcolm X had been actually killed by a government plot, don’t you think one of these three black men would have ratted out the conspiracy by now?

[MissyMack66]

Just in the nick of time, I got another job for him....this Sunday...

[SunkenCiv]

February would have been more appropriate.

[hennie pennie]

Did you hear about this?

[fr_freak]

I don’t spend a great deal of time on 1960s black muslim history. A weakness, I suppose.

In my experience, much of the black muslim nation-of-islam thinking has permeated the mainstream black American community, especially the part about whitey being the blue-eyed devil.

[Fred Nerks]

thanks, another one of those stories we will never know in full, I guess.

[Realman30]

According the to brothas’ the shooters were ‘brainwashed’ by the man and coerced into shooting Bro Malcolm.

[allmendream]

I am a proponent of the old Viking saying...

“If a secret you would keep, tell one and not one other; for if three know a thing - thousands will”

Or also the Mafia saying...

“Two people can keep a secret, if one of them is dead.”

So yeah, not much for conspiracy theories.

[Del Rapier]

Malcom X is what happens when you reinvent yourself over and over.

Eventually the past catches up to you.

[potlatch]

Bump Phil