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MUSLIM MOSQUE, INCORPORATED Bob Kemnedy stated that Louis Lomax, noted Negro author, who wrote the bock "When the Word Is Given" concerning the Black Muslims, *«Sulé€ participate in the program over a telephone line. Malcolm X stated that his religion is still Islax, and he ig still a Muslim and a believer in Elijah Muhammad's teachings. He stated that everything he knows and has , learned is a result of Elijah Muhammad's doing. Malcolm X was questioned as to whether or not his being Silenced by Eiijah Muhammad was actually the result of a statement he had made shortly after the death of President John F. Kennedy or whether Elijeh Muhammad had "diamissed" him because he was getting too popular with the Muslims and threatened the leadership of Elijah Muhammad, and this leadership being passed on to Slijah Muhanmad'sson and ~ son-in-law. Malcolm X stated that his statement’ "The chicken had gone home -to roost” when mentioning the death of President John F, Kennedy had been taken out of ~ context. He stated that at the vime the topic of his talk was "God's Judgment on White America," he had been trying to demonstrate that White America was reaping the harvest of the seed she had sown and had been using incidents all over the world to illustrate this. His remark about "The chicken had gone home to roost" was meant as another illustration of the misfortunes that had come to the United States and was not meant to show any kind of relief over the unfortunate death of the President. He stated that all these incidents that he was using as {llustrations were merely prophecies of the Bible coming true and that he had pointed out he was happy to see these prophecies coming true, and he did not mean that he was happy about the death of the Presidant. P As to the threatened passage of power of Elijah Muhammad | to himself, he said he had nothing to say on that subject. Malcolm X was asked what he hoped to accomplish by breaking off with Elijah Muhammad and starting out on his own. stated he believes in the teachings of Elijah Muhammad, but that in following the teachings of Elijah Muhanmad, he ran into obstacles which he could not handle and still abide by Muhammad's teachings. -5-