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History > USA > Civil rights > Malcolm X 1925-1965
Al-Mustafa Shabazz formerly known as William Bradley ? - 2018
Years after the assassination, scholars suggested William Bradley, an enforcer for a Nation of Islam mosque in Newark, was likely the man who fired the fatal shotgun blast.
Photograph: East Orange Police Department
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/
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 — Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam — 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 gaveonly 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.
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/18/
https://www.nytimes.com/live/2021/11/18/
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