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0-19 (Rew. 5-27-63) a Wounded \ Suspect Is Charged Ex-Black Muslim Leader Shot Down Speaking to 500 By Stanley Scott NEW YORK, Feb. 21 (UPD—Malcolm X, bearded Negro advocate of violence against the whites in the y civil rights struggle, w; t shot g tial tgaay “a — m to” his foll@wers. ae Malcolm X/is taken on a stretcher from_ the Audubon Baliroom in New York where. Other Pictures on Page A3 - ~” Poljpe blamed the killing on ack Muslims, a militant ‘Negro organization which ousted Malcolm X recently 7 $ a only to have him set up Black Nationalist organization . and open a recruiting drive to woo Black Muslims as embers. . . as 500 persons watched in horror, Malcolm X fell in a bloodied heap on the rostrum at the Audubon Balircom, lo- cated on the fringes of Har- Jem’s Negro district. At least seven bullets ripped into his Police charged 2 22-year-old Negro, Thomas Hagan, with firing some of the fatal shots, the Associated Press reported. Hagan, shot in the leg in the melee that followed the slay- g, was held in the prison ward of Bellevue Hospital. Po- ce Capt. Paul Glaser said Hag y one of Malcolm's follow “he was” fatally shot was addressing a meeting of his follbwers. «| ff double-barreled shot: / an killed Maicolm with a , and was himeelf wounded Tolson Belmont Mohr Casper Callahan Conrad DeLoach Evans Rosen Sullivan Tavel Trotter Tele Room Holmes Gandy ee eo 1 ww A second man was ailao beld fer questioning. [Accounts of the mauier ered. The Herald Tribune s Service reported "buat two men in the back of the {bali started a fight and that Malcolm X's botlyguards moved toward them to restore order, It was then, according to this account, that the’ two |Negroes moved up the aisle and shot Malcolm X. Another account had five men taking part in the shooting] The murder created fresh tensions in Harlem. | Tonight more than 100 of See MALCOLM, AS, Col. 4 | The life of Malcolm X was marked by trony. Page As. Daited Press Interpetional | yesterday while he i The Washington Post and J/-f4 * Times Herald : The Washington Daily News _ eer Dns Evening Star New York Herald Tribune r New York Journdl-American New York Mirror New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Worker The New Leader The Wal! Street Journal The Nationg] Observer People's World Date Lal me #7 ” Sm j09 qt