Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan admits his complicity in the 1965 murder of Malcolm X while seated across the table from the civil rights leader’s oldest daughter in a “60 Minutes” interview to be broadcast Sunday. Attallah Shabazz, then 6, saw her father gunned down in the Audobon Ballroom in Harlem on Feb. 21, 1965. Three men with ties to the Nation of Islam were convicted in the slaying.
A year earlier, Malcolm X’s criticism of Nation of Islam spiritual leader Elijah Muhammad had caused a bitter split with church leaders, including Farrakhan.
Farrakhan called Malcolm X a traitor and wrote, two months before the killing, that “such a man is worthy of death.” ...”
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