The Killer of Malcolm X Is Set Free on Parole
http://www.washingtoninformer.com/index.php?option=com_content&view=article&id=3564:the-killer-of-malcolm-x-is-set-free-on-parole&catid=51:national&Itemid=114
04 May 2010
Thomas Hagan, the only man to actually admit that he participated in
the assassination of Malcolm X, was set free last week approximately
45 years after the murder of the man often considered the prince of
Black nationalism in America. Hagan, who was known as Talmadge X.
Hayer at the time of the assassination was released on parole from a
New York City prison.
Hagan, now 69, was one of three gunmen who shot Malcolm X as he began
a speech at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom on February 21, 1965. He has
maintained that the other two men convicted in the killing were not
involved. Although Hagan expressed regret for his role in the
assassination, he has refused to name the men who he says were
actually involved.
Malcolm X rose to national prominence as a member of the Black Muslim
sect known as the Nation of Islam. He had broken with the movement's
founder Elijah Muhammad over alleged infidelities and financial
improprieties. The break angered many of Muhammad's most devote
followers and the stage was thus set of Malcolm's assassination.
Indeed, in 2008, Hagan described his role in the murder as the
actions of a young man who "acted out of rage on impulse and loyalty"
to Elijah Muhammad. The other two men convicted in the assassination
were paroled in the 1980s and Hagan has not actually been in prison
for 45 years. He was placed on work release about 20 years ago and in
recent years has only spent two days a week in the prison.
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