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6-19 (Rev. 12-14-64) Tolson Belmont h pic. pic per Callahan Conrad Felt n Malcolm X CLs 7TLE cae rs Sullivan Slaying Called bi Tove 4 Tragedy for All Tele Room Holmes Gandy The assassination of Malcolm x in New York Sunday was a “great tragedy” for all free-| ‘thinking Americans, according - to Roy E. Wilkins, a Negro civil rights leader. Speaking last night te about 500 Georgetown University students, Wilkins, executive ‘director of the National Associa- ‘tion for the Advancement of. Colored People (NAACP) said that, although most Negroes disagree with the philasophy of the Black Nationalist jeader, “assassination was not the! | Wilkins said he did not consider Malcolm X a friend of hail the civil rights movement but “an respected his right as an American to express his own philosophy as to the future of the Negro race. ———-* “The Black Muslim organiza- tion turns its back on the American way of life... they are not ted Ae the, American dream reedom a e Washington Fost an lequality,? Wilkins said. ‘But The Washington Post and when Malcclm X broke away Times Herald from .the Muslims and headed The Washington Daily News ae ithe Black Nationalists, he began to learn something about white ipeople, . Lo “We will never know if this ‘changed his way of thinking and if he eventually would have come into civil rights camp,” Wilkins said. When asked by a reporter| ‘ later if he thought the assassi- The Evening Star New York Herald Tribune New York Journgl-Amertican New York Daily News New York Post The New York Times The Baltimore Sun The Worker nation would start a bloody feud | between the two Negro exter- mist.groups, Wilkins said no. The New Leader The Wall Street Journal The Nationa! Observer ; \’ | People’s World - “7 A { Date 4° , OL fen 79 4a) 1g028 1965 f - “ Lo NO? PeCORDE 176 MAR 3 1965 D COMAR 8 4965 —_— — cei