The Helios Biblios Hour : A Reflection in The Life of Malcolm X2017

Fifty years after Hagan and the others gunned down Malcolm on Feb. 21, 1965, questions linger around whether there was more — much more — to the killing. For now, though, the official answer is that Malcolm’s murder was a revenge killing for the bitter and contentious attacks he made on his former mentor and father figure, Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad. Louis Farrakhan candidly admitted years later, “There was not a Muslim who loved the Honorable Elijah Muhammad that did not want to kill Malcolm.” At the time, Farrakhan repeatedly lambasted Malcolm as a betrayer of the faith. However, the FBI and the New York City Police Department’s super-secret, elite undercover unit, the Bureau of Special Services (BOSS), also hated Malcolm. the well-documented, savage war that the FBI waged against black organizations and black leaders, including Martin Luther King Jr., during the 1960s. In an infamous memo from those years, FBI officials flatly warned of the necessity of preventing the rise of a “black messiah” among blacks. In the US, the Muslim Brotherhood coalesces around Louis Farrakhan and his Nation of Islam.  On February 21, 1965 Nation of Islam operatives gunned down Malcolm X, who had fallen out with the Islamists after a journey to Mecca altered his worldview.  Upon his return he ditched his racial analysis and focused on class, reaching out, as Dr. Martin Luther King had begun to do when he was assassinated, to labor unions and impoverished whites. the Nation of Islam, whose donors have included Texas billionaire H. L. Hunt.  Hunt met with Jack Ruby the day before the JFK hit, then disappeared to Mexico for a month.  Louis Farrakhan came up missing in similar fashion after the Malcolm X hit. Nation of Islam leader Elijah Muhammad was a self-proclaimed messenger of Nation of ISLAM.