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Malcolm X — Part 34
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Maicoim X's followWEFe gath-
ered across the street from
his Hotel Theresa headquart-
ers and the police detail in
the area was doubled.
Police also called on the
Black Muslims to cfose thelr
“The Shabazz” Temple No. 7
2 restaurant in Harlem The!
Muslims complied.
Police also told them to can-
cel a meeting slated for late
aitoday at the Muhammed
}|Temple of Islam. Again the
'|Mushms complied.
A. police informant told
United Press Internationa!|
; {that detectives were investi-
gating a report that six of
Maicolm’s followers had left
s|New York by various route:
to seek revenge on Elijah
Muhammad, Black, Musiiny.(t
[leader of the Black Musli
Toh police, embarrassed by
the slaying while Malcolm
guiariy making stat
me that the Black Mus
were “out to get him,” were
closed-mouthed about the in-
vestigation, even denying that
‘any suspects had been picked
up. ;
_ But Sgt. Alvin Aronoff, who
apprehended Hagan, de
scTibed it this way:
. “I just got to the entrance f
of the Audubon Ballroom. I;
‘got out of the car with Patroi- ivi
man Louis Angelos and there
was a mob coming toward us
out of-the door. They all piled
on this fellow Hagan. He had
‘been shot in the leg. They
were kicking and pummeling
him and ehouting, ‘Kill him.
Kill him.” I thought the man
would be lynched.
“J fired a shot in the air
and we grabbed Hagan and
pulled him into the car. I
found four unused .45-calibe
cartridges in Hagan’s pocket.”
’ Two other persons were hit
by stray bullets. A semi-auto-
je was found in te)
aiiitorium.
,between the
[Elijah Muhammad, head of
“deeply saddened and [er
palled” by the slaying |!
Sanford Guarelick, Assis
nspector, said:
“This is the result, it would
seem, of a long-standing feud
followers of
the Black Muslims, and the
people who broke away from
him, headed by Malcolm X."
Malcoim X had uttered only
e words — “Brothers and
ters —” when the bullets
ped into him.
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tried to save Malcolm's life,
spokesman said,
no response
alattack he attributed ‘to the’
“There was Black Muslims.
at all He was
dead on arrival, There was no
stdase mah
Negro leaders, many ig-
ly opposed to the racism
preached by Malcolm X, ex-
response from the time he was! pressed themselves as aghast
ght in.”
mw the slaying. The Rev.
alcolm X, his wife and|Martin Luther King Jr. said
four children had been fire-
\
“This evil, act must be
strongly condemned by ail
people of goodwill,” he said.
Roy Wilkins, executive di-
rector of the National Associa-
fion for the Advancement of
-olored People, said th
slay-
of
g@ showed the “futi
tonight in Atlanta that he was
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