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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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9-19 (Rew. 11-96-65) Toison CeLoach Mohr . Casper - - Callahan “He knew he was going down, WAT CAT M CLAVING buried under a mountain of evi- Conrad NTADVOLL OUP eed | dence, and he tried at the ” Felt moment to do the noble Lf CALLED A ‘LESGOW | See." — 4 Pp , ringing with + c Rosen Somewhere along the line,” Sullivan Prosecutor Charges Kiing| hej.went on, “it was decided, Tavel - “| by’ whom J cannot say, inact ne saa Was Intended as Warning |iwas a dead duck and that he Trotter jshould take the fall.” Wick _ Mr, Dermody, who spoke for le By THOMAS BUCKLEY [4 hours and | oe ony of the 26 Tele. Room Malcolm-X_was publicly se | hin ted by the state Holmes sassinated as “an object wel aid a9 who, “appeared for the Gandy to his followers, Assistant Dis-! qirendants. Je crt aes yestecday. Der- “ayer, he noted, had been _ piel eclared terday. a The prosecutor, summing up! a bullet, asserted! red Lt In the eight-week trial of the ye one of.” Malcolm's dy . three men accused of the kill- guards, in his left thigh. Tiere eo ing, did not, however, attempt coulda be no dispute that he jhad Lo to ifink the murder directly €0 attended the meeting. Jo the’ national leadership of the “put as to his contention that : Blick Muslims. had never been a member of e never said we'd prove the Muslims or, for that matter, — that Elijah Muhammad ordered ger been in a Muslim mosque, 6k this death,” he declared “Ifhave y°; Dermody asked the jury to been accused of putting’ the thay carefully photographs Basak WMiclime an triat TF oevh-' ia captured outside the iy dred te] + : Black Muslims on trial I sub-' taken, according to testimony, ; mit this is not a fact. fi ' at Mosque No. 25 in Newark, i However,” he continuéd, I snowing Hayer taking part in a - submit that these three defend- ,arate demonstration. ana ants are members of the Black as to the alibis of Butler or Muslims and that these threede- and Johnson, who were arrested’ ~s fendants caused his death,” Feb, 25 and March 3, thal. Malcolm broke with the Mus- they spent the afternoon of th lims, whose best known spokes- riurder with their families i man he had become, in March, their Bronx apartments, M 1964, and set up the rival Or- termody said: ‘Somebody — ganizajion of Afro-American tying.” Ta Unity (Ind Muslim Mosque, Inc, — us Fror that time until he was riddled in a pistol-andshot-gun, attack while addressing a meet- ing of 400 persons at the Audu- bon Ballroom on Feb, 21, 1965, he often stated aS a certainty that the Muslims would murder ” him. a B nness of Killing Nq The Washington Post and : ; Mr. Dermody contrastejf th . . . Times Herald _ “prazenness” of the killing with . The Washington Daily News , * ee ey carcied pir tami ioe The Evening Star retly, puetly, in the dead of New York Herald Tribune oy was it done in this New York Journal-American wayT* he asked the Supreme New York Daily News Court reason” ve New York Post facing the panel of mine’ The New York Times in & men ‘OM ule derithing his statement with The Baltimore Sun dopa tarans,of Bis ght /22- 3993 ALAA 00 vores - it abusing your common QT REGORDED The New Leader séfise to say that it was an, HR oe:: The Wall Street Journal @odiject lesson to Malcolm's fol- Wiis 14 1966 lowers, telling them that this The Naticnal Observer penne Tae happen and will People's Wor!d | Date Mr. Dermody, a member of : : the District Attorney's office \ it - for 25 years and a speci: vy! in mupder trials, described Hify- re V 4 ers a jon on the witniss q | . ; stand fast Monday that he Hadi 44 7. Sy 4 eras Lc GGKAR TS 966 LAe eee eribe \ innocent a5 a “futile, despe- Ni he rate gesture.” | \
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