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— x # r A TACTAL 10) THybe FE THE THREE NEATLY DRESSED DEFENDANTS FERE APPEAR CALM AND UNMOVED AS THE DAMAGING EVIDENCE CONTINUES TO PILE UP AGAINST | THEM, * ONE OF THE THREE, NCRMAN 3 X BUTLER NEW SPENDS HIS TIME IN COURT READING THE STORED’ ALMANAC IND “eer TCHING JPICTURES OF HIS COURT- APPOINTED DEFENSE LAWYER, THOMAS 15 X SORNSON ALSO OF NEW YCRK, HAS MAINTAINED smile’ AND DEEP SHOCK WHENEVER A WITNESS ADVANCES TO THE/DEFENSE TABLE AND ACCUSES HIM OF FIRING TWO BLASTS FROM A SAVED-OFF SHOTGUN INTO MALCOLM'’S CHEST, HE KEEPS A GUARDED SMILE FOR BLACK MUSLIM "BROTHERS" ATTENDING THE TRIAL. THE THIRD DEFENDANT, 22-YEAR-OLD THOMAS HAGAN OF FATERSON Neda py SHIES AWAY FROM JOHNSON AND BUTLER, POSSIBLY FOR GOOD PETER L.F. SABBATINO, HAGAN'S DEFENSE LAVYER, CONTENDS THAT HIS CLIENT IS THE VICTIM OF ®MOB IDENTIFICATION," CABBATINO ASSAILS TESTIMONY THAT HAGAN WAS A MEMBER OF THE BLACK MUSSLEMS ALONG WITH BUTLER AND JOHNSON, HE CHARGES THAT HAGAN WAS A VICTIM OF ERRONEOUS IDENTFICATION WHEN HE WAS SHOT IN THE LEFT THIGH BY A MALCOLM X SECURITY CUARD WHILE ATTEMPTING TO FLEE THE AUTUSCN BALLROOM, ONCE A PROTEGE OF SELF-STYLED PROPHET ELIJAH MUHAMMAD, VPALCOLM BROKE AYAY FROM THE MUSLIM SECT MCBE THAN A YEAR BEFORE HIS DEATH TO FORM HIS OWN SPLINTER GROUP, TFE ORGANIZATION OF ATRO-AMERICAN UNITY, MALCOLM DISCARDED ATHEISM AND ACCEPTED MUHAMMAD'S RACIST TEACHINGS WEILE SERVING A SENTENCE IN THE MAXIMUM SECURITY PRISON AT CONCORD, MASS. HE ONCE SAID HE *KICKED™ NARCOTICS ADDICTICN VITHIN 24 HOURS AFTER ALIGNING WITH MUBRAMMAD, A WEEK BEFORE HIS DEATH MALCOLM'S NEW YORK, HOME, ONE OF THE RENT-FREE FRINGE BENEFITS HE ENJOYED WHILE IN THE GOOD GRACES OF MUHAMMAD, WAS ROCKED BY FIRE BOMBS IN THE EARLY MCRNING HOURS, MALCOLM LATER HELD A NEWS CONFERENCE AND TOLD REPORTERS THAT BLACK MUSLIM FOLLOWERS WERE PLOTTING AGAINST HIS LIFE ASKED BY A REPORTER TF THE SO-CALLED "CONSIPRACY®*® COULD *BE FALTED, PAL COL RETORTED THAT MUHAMMAD CCULD STCP THE PLOT BY *RAISING HIS MALCOLM REPORTEDLY HAD PLANNER TO REVEAL AT THE FATAL RALLY THE NAMES OF THOSE WHOM HE SAID WERE TRYING TO KILL HIM, A RED NOTE BOOK PIERCED WITH THREE BULLET HOLES WAS TAKEN FROM FIS LEFT BREAST POCKET AFTER HIS DEATH, THE BOOK HAS BEEN OFFERED INTO EVIDENCE, DERMODY HAS CHARGEDTHAT BUTLER AND KAGAN, ARMED WITH MM AND 45 AUTOMATIC WEAPONS, INFILTRATED THE RALLY AND CREATED A *DIVERSIONARY" COMMCTION MIDWAY IN THE BALLROOM TC ALLOY JONSON TE OPPORTUNITY TO SNEAK TO THE STAGE AND SHOOT MALCOLM WITH THE DERMODY IS ATTEMPTING TO PROVE THAT HAGAN AND BUTLER PEONE Bony ny soN TO THE STAGE AND PUMPED SHOTS INTO MALCOLM'S | ADV FOR AM*S MON FEB of { SSI: 54PES