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Malcolm X — Part 35

101 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Mar 29, 1965 · Broad topic: Murder · Topic: Malcolm X · 101 pages OCR'd
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Toison eLoac ohr Wick: 0-19 (Rev. 1-26-66} pe -« C. he Cadp Callahan Mateolm X’s Widow Sc bag, corres —— -olm X's Widow Scores Suspects Felt 4 . aoe | - _ : Gale By THO U fconvenea, Wiliam C. Chance,|“Chairs falling, people shout- Rosen ; In a voled of despair and lawyer, tor bets Butler,jing. Then there was 2 succes- Clligar ssiy hatred the ea One e accu. formally|sion of shots... . My babies vee ee Seely oe d, pester” de moved for a mistrial on the fur-! started crying. They wanted to Tavel we ee ho hice men who arej ier grounds that the widow,;know if someone was going to T i " rotter on trial for his murder. who calls herself Mrs. Betty)kii us... . 1 was trying to ‘. Shabazz, the Moslem name that/quiet them, I pushed them un- Tele. Room Then, leaving the witnessMaicolm assumed after his pil-|der the bench and I covered the Holmes stand in Supreme Court, shelerimage to Mecca in 1963, was ° m 'bench with my body.” halted a few feet from the table'staring intently and icily at/ “And what” happened then?" Gandy at which they were seated andithe defendants” throughout her asked Mr. Dermody. cried out, “They killed my hus-festimony. “I heard a gasp,” she said. and jband? | “I watched the defendant in-;“I looked up at the stage and I a She tried to turn toward tently from a distance of twolcouldn't see my husband. I ran them, put Drone anne ead ae and a haif feet," Justice Marks to the stage, but they wouldn't t Me 32 Was My OOSSTVa= 00M, sPreyiea OM sik while they tugged at her, she tion’ that she looked straight! The prosecution contends exclaimed, “They killed him.|ahead.” ithat the murder was committed They had no right to kill my} Mrs. Shabazz was composed by Butler, Thomas 15X Johnson during her long-awaited ap-.and Talmadge Hayer, who is The outburst followed lessdpearance in the trial, whieh! also known as Thomas Hagan, than 19 minutes of gentle ques-Izoes into its sixth week today.' all of whom are allegedly mem- tioning by Assistant Districty4 tall, well-spaken woman in‘bers of the Black Muslims, the Attorney Vincent J. Dermody [her early thirties, she wore alorganization that Malcolm She was not asked to identifyfsimple black suit, black pumps, |broke with in the year before the defendants as being in thela black velvet hat and a pearljhis death. Audubon Ballroom, 166th Streethhecklace. In the corridor outside the and Eroadway, last Feb. 21.) She lives with her six young courtroom in the = Cri when the murder took place, daughters—twins were born in,Courts Building, leaflets were and she was not subjected tofoctober—in a house in Mount| being distributed announcing a cross-examination. in that was purchased|“commemoration day solemn The six defense lawyers im-bvith ts of money after the/ march” on Sunday in memory mediately rushed to the bench made y of Malcolm X. Among its spon- to protest and Justice Charles! Sitting with her hands folded|sors were listed the National Marks, who is presiding, told/in her lap and her back straight| Association for the Advance- the jury of nine men and three|in the witness chair, she told ment of Colored People, the : women: jthe jury about removing her:Congress of Racial Equality, paeaeees ‘When the last witness left:children's stow suits as her hus-- HARYOU-ACT, and many oth- ~ as ‘the witness stand she made hand gave the Moslem saluta-'er civil rights and black na- os some statements that may or ticn, “Salaam Aleikum,” to the tionalist groups. ‘may not have been ardible to 400 persons in the audience at The march will begin at 10 ‘you. I direct you to disregard the ballroom, AM. at Lennox Avenue and them.” —. annem | “Then a lot of things were 110th Street and’go ret there - h When the afternoon session happening all at once,’ she said. ta the ballroom. The Washington Psst and Times Herald The Washington Datty News Evening Star (700 - 3 9 9 3 - }-A. York Herald Tribune —aa New York Iournal-American NOT Fr ‘IDED . New York Daily News 191 FEB 95 19F5 New York Post The New York Times —— eS The Baltimore Sun __ eee The Worker The New Leader The Wall Street Journal a” 4 Cf 3 | The National Coserver — D >) — i yu As 4c. -? FEB 18 19 ° a , SREB 24 1966 or People’s World Date
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