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69-year-old convict was the last man still serving time in the 1965 killing

NEW YORK - The only man to admit shooting Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he assassinated the civil rights leader.

Thomas Hagan, the last man still serving time in the 1965 killing, was freed from a Manhattan prison where he spent two days a week under a work-release program, state Department of Correctional Services spokeswoman Linda Foglia said.

Hagan, 69, has said he was one of three gunmen who shot Malcolm X as he began a speech at Harlem's Audubon Ballroom on Feb. 21, 1965. But Hagan has said the two men convicted with him were not involved.

They maintained their innocence and were paroled in the 1980s. No one else has ever been charged.

The assassins gunned down Malcolm X out of anger at his split with the leadership of the Nation of Islam, the black Muslim movement for which he had once served as chief spokesman, said Hagan, who was then known as Talmadge X Hayer.
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Malcolm X has always been one of my favorite Americans...
The ballet or the Bullet speech stands as one of the greatest public message announcements regarding the race division in America (period)

He was a great story teller an amazing motivator and as non-apologetic a man that ever walked this green earth... I tend to only agree with about two thirds of what he says but I love the man

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I want to buy Hagan tickets for Obamas next pubic event

Pubic event

I know, I laughed typing that.

I've always wondered why they only shot Malcolm X and not the other IX Malcolms...

Chizzang wrote:Malcolm X has always been one of my favorite Americans...
The ballet or the Bullet speech stands as one of the greatest public message announcements regarding the race division in America (period)

He was a great story teller an amazing motivator and as non-apologetic a man that ever walked this green earth... I tend to only agree with about two thirds of what he says but I love the man

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Agree...unapologetic & honest....realized later in life that it wasn't so much whitey holding you down as the Man, regardless of color, putting his foot on your neck...I was raised to hate the idea of the man, but I grew to admire him once I read his autobiography...translates well to what is going on now....

Chizzang wrote:Malcolm X has always been one of my favorite Americans...
The ballet or the Bullet speech stands as one of the greatest public message announcements regarding the race division in America (period)

He was a great story teller an amazing motivator and as non-apologetic a man that ever walked this green earth... I tend to only agree with about two thirds of what he says but I love the man

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He was a racist jackass. When he commented after JFK's assassination, "Chickens coming home to roost never made me sad, they made me glad," he lost all my respect.

Chizzang wrote:Malcolm X has always been one of my favorite Americans...
The ballet or the Bullet speech stands as one of the greatest public message announcements regarding the race division in America (period)

He was a great story teller an amazing motivator and as non-apologetic a man that ever walked this green earth... I tend to only agree with about two thirds of what he says but I love the man

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I tend to agree with your assessment, Cleets.

In my mind I have tried, as my grandmother used to say, to walk a mile in the other man's moccasins. While using this technique to study, understand and admire both Malcom X and Martin Luther King, I have to wonder which path I might have chosen in their situations.

Ivytalk wrote:

Chizzang wrote:Malcolm X has always been one of my favorite Americans...
The ballet or the Bullet speech stands as one of the greatest public message announcements regarding the race division in America (period)

He was a great story teller an amazing motivator and as non-apologetic a man that ever walked this green earth... I tend to only agree with about two thirds of what he says but I love the man

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He was a racist jackass. When he commented after JFK's assassination, "Chickens coming home to roost never made me sad, they made me glad," he lost all my respect.

True! Malcom was certainly full of more than his normal share of piss and vinegar as a younger man!

But he changed, Ivytalk, he changed. All the more impressive an accomplishment for how far he came.

Chizzang wrote:Malcolm X has always been one of my favorite Americans...
The ballet or the Bullet speech stands as one of the greatest public message announcements regarding the race division in America (period)

He was a great story teller an amazing motivator and as non-apologetic a man that ever walked this green earth... I tend to only agree with about two thirds of what he says but I love the man

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Another great man coming from the bowls of North Omaha, you guys would have gotten a blast listening to Ernie Chambers, another North O Alum.

native wrote: While using this technique to study, understand and admire both Malcom X and Martin Luther King, I have to wonder which path I might have chosen in their situations.

I agree Native, and if I was either of them my path would have put me 1 or 2 feet to the left when the gun went off.

ALPHAGRIZ1 wrote:

native wrote: While using this technique to study, understand and admire both Malcom X and Martin Luther King, I have to wonder which path I might have chosen in their situations.

I agree Native, and if I was either of them my path would have put me 1 or 2 feet to the left when the gun went off.

See he just didn't plan properly