{"id":450817,"date":"2010-03-19T23:09:00","date_gmt":"2010-03-20T03:09:00","guid":{"rendered":"tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-16711557.post-3001709669286389748"},"modified":"2010-03-19T23:09:24","modified_gmt":"2010-03-20T03:09:24","slug":"confessed-killer-of-malcolm-x-is-granted-parole","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/450817","title":{"rendered":"Confessed Killer of Malcolm X Is Granted Parole"},"content":{"rendered":"
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Malcolm X of the Muslim Mosque, Inc. and Shirley Graham DuBois, Director of Ghana National Television, at her villa in Accra, Ghana during Malcolm’s visit in May 1964. DuBois had thrown a reception in his honor.<\/a>
Originally uploaded by Pan-African News Wire File Photos<\/a><\/span><\/div>\n

March 19, 2010<\/p>\n

Killer of Malcolm X Is Granted Parole<\/p>\n

By ANDY NEWMAN and JOHN ELIGON
New York Times<\/p>\n

After being turned down for parole 16 times, Malcolm X\u2019s only confessed assassin is about to gain his freedom.<\/p>\n

Thomas Hagan has been held since moments after shots rang out in the Audubon Ballroom in 1965. He has been on work release for more than two decades, but he still spends two days a week locked up at the Lincoln Correctional Facility on West 110th Street in Manhattan.<\/p>\n

On March 3, however, on his 17th try, Mr. Hagan was granted parole, the State Division of Parole said. His final release date is tentatively scheduled for April 28. The news was reported Thursday on The Village Voice\u2019s Runnin\u2019 Scared blog.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hagan, who turned 69 in jail on Tuesday, was a militant member of the Nation of Islam on Feb. 21, 1965, when Malcolm X was shot while giving a speech at the Audubon, in Washington Heights. Mr. Hagan, then known as Talmadge X. Hayer, was captured by the crowd and shot at and beaten before being rescued by the police.<\/p>\n

Two other men, Muhammad Abdul Aziz (then known as Norman 3X Butler) and Kahlil Islam (then Thomas 15X Johnson), were also charged with the murder. They maintained their innocence. Mr. Hagan did not, testifying at his trial in 1966 that he was responsible for the murder and that his co-defendants were innocent.<\/p>\n

All three men were sentenced to 20 years to life.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hagan said in a 1977 affidavit that he and several accomplices (not Mr. Aziz or Mr. Islam) decided to kill Malcolm X because he was a \u201chypocrite\u201d who had \u201cgone against the leader of the Nation of Islam,\u201d Elijah Muhammad. Mr. Hagan said that after one man shot Malcolm X in the chest with a shotgun, he and another man fired several more rounds at him.<\/p>\n

Mr. Aziz was paroled in 1985, and in 1998 was named by Louis Farrakhan to be chief of security for the Harlem mosque that Malcolm X once headed. Mr. Islam was paroled in 1987.<\/p>\n

Mr. Hagan, who earned a master\u2019s degree while in prison, according to a 2008 profile in The New York Post, was placed on work release in 1988. In 2008, he was spending his free days with his wife and children in Sunset Park, Brooklyn, and working in a fast food restaurant.<\/p>\n

\u201cI\u2019ve been incarcerated for 40 years, and I\u2019ve had a good record all around,\u201d he told The Post. \u201cI don\u2019t see any reason for holding me.\u201d
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