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History > USA > Civil rights > Malcolm X 1925-1965
Talmadge Hayer (later Mujahid Abdul Halim)
Malcolm X’s confessed killer
Mujahid Abdul Halim, also known as Talmadge Hayer, was shot in the leg after the assassination. He later confessed to the killing.
Photograph: John Lent Associated Press
2 Men Convicted of Killing Malcolm X Will Be Exonerated Decades Later The 1966 convictions of the two men are expected to be thrown out after a lengthy investigation, validating long-held doubts about who killed the civil rights leader. NYT Nov. 17, 2021 Updated 12:37 p.m. ET
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/
Mujahid Abdul Halim, then named Talmadge Hayer, struggled with police outside the ballroom where Malcolm X was shot and killed.
Photograph: WCBS-TV NEWS, via Associated Press
56 Years Ago, He Shot Malcolm X. Now He Lives Quietly in Brooklyn. Mujahid Abdul Halim is the one man who confessed to his role in the assassination. He long insisted that the two men convicted with him were innocent. NYT Nov. 22, 2021
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/22/
Talmadge Hayer (later Mujahid Abdul Halim)
Thomas Hagan (born March 16, 1941) former member of the Nation of Islam convicted for assassinating Malcolm X in 1965.
For a while he also went by the name Talmadge X Hayer, and his chosen Islamic name is Mujahid Abdul Halim. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hagan
For decades, the killing of Malcolm X has captivated the attention of scholars with a critical question: Were the wrong men convicted of the crime?
One of three men, Mujahid Abdul Halim, confessed at the 1966 murder trial.
But he also testified that his co-defendants were innocent and that he knew, but would not name, the actual assassins.
A decade later, Mr. Halim gave two sworn affidavits as part of an unsuccessful appeal by Mr. Aziz and Mr. Islam.
In the documents, he named four other men who he said took part in the assassination, all members of a Nation of Islam mosque in Newark.
He gave only partial names.
The review by the Manhattan district attorney’s office did not pin the crime on any other suspects.
But scholars have formed their own conclusions about the identities and roles of the four men identified by Mr. Halim, who previously went by the name Talmadge Hayer.
It is widely believed among experts on the assassination that William Bradley, a member of the Newark mosque who once served time in prison on charges that included threatening to kill three people, fired the first shotgun blast.
Mr. Halim identified the man with the shotgun as William X.
Mr. Bradley denied any involvement and died in 2018.
The historian Manning Marable, who wrote a Pulitzer Prize-winning biography of Malcolm X in 2011, suspected that Mr. Bradley was probably pulled into the assassination plot by two other members of the Newark mosque whom Mr. Halim identified:
Leon Davis and Benjamin Thomas.
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March 10, 1965
3 Nation of Islam members are indicted in the killing.
Mujahid Abdul Halim, a member of the Nation of Islam, was arrested as he fled the ballroom.
(He was known as Talmadge Hayer at the time and later as Thomas Hagan.)
Within two weeks, two other men were arrested and later indicted in the killing:
Muhammad Abdul Aziz (formerly Norman 3X Butler) and Khalil Islam (also known as Thomas 15X Johnson).
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On Feb. 21, 1965, Mr. Halim, who was then 23, was apprehended after being shot in the thigh in the aftermath of Malcolm X’s assassination.
News photographers captured the chaotic scene as he was carried on a gurney into the emergency room in his underwear, hands covering his face, surrounded by police officers.
Mr. Aziz, then known as Norman 3X Butler, was arrested five days later, and Mr. Islam, known as Thomas 15X Johnson, another five days after that.
Within a week, the three Nation of Islam loyalists had been charged with murder.
But while Mr. Halim confessed on the witness stand to taking part in one of the most consequential and confounding political assassinations in U.S. history, he swore his fellow defendants were innocent.
Mr. Halim (...), who was born Thomas Hagan, served more than four decades in prison for Malcolm X’s murder, earning bachelor’s and master’s degrees behind bars.
He was granted work-release in 1988 and was employed as a counselor for young people and the homeless in New York City.
He was paroled in 2010 after being rejected 16 times and moved in with his family in Brooklyn. Mr. Halim said he and four other men with ties to a mosque in Newark, N.J., had decided to kill Malcolm X because he was a “hypocrite” who had “gone against the leader of the Nation of Islam,” Elijah Muhammad.
He said Mr. Aziz and Mr. Islam were not involved.
Mr. Halim said that after one man shot Malcolm X in the chest with a shotgun, he and another man fired several more rounds at him with handguns.
https://www.nytimes.com/2021/11/17/
One man — Talmadge Hayer, who later changed his name to Mujahid Abdul Halim — was wounded and arrested at the ballroom, and within 10 days, two other men had been arrested:
Mr. Aziz and Mr. Islam, then known as Norman 3X Butler and Thomas 15X Johnson, two members of the Nation of Islam’s Harlem mosque.
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