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Toure Show

Who Killed Malcolm X

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2023

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Summary

Now that two men have been exonerated in the murder of Malcolm X, who killed him? Well there’s a Netflix doc that has an answer: “Who Killed Malcolm X” tells us the name of the man who pulled the trigger of the sawed-off shotgun that killed Malcolm, and which Newark mosque he was from. I talk with the directors Rachel Dretzin and Phil Bertelsen about who killed Malcolm and how the American government conspired to kill Malcolm—his top bodyguard at the end was an NYPD infiltrator and informant. Original Air Date: February 19, 2020 Original Title: Touré Show Ep 115: Who Killed Malcolm X  Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

Who Killed Malcolm X is one of the illest Netflix documentaries to come along in a while.

0:20.8

You already know how important Malcolm is and how inspirational he is.

0:25.2

I'd love to hear him speak from the stage and bring that fire.

0:28.5

This doc goes into all of that, but also into the detective story around who killed Malcolm

0:34.2

because he was murdered by three gunmen who shot at him at the Audubon ballroom

0:39.4

in Harlem as he was speaking shot him right in front of his wife and his four young daughters.

0:45.4

We know who shot it. We know that the main trigger man did not get caught and was not convicted

0:51.3

or punished for the murder. We know that he was a Muslim from Newark.

0:56.0

And thanks to this doc, we know that the NYPD knew Malcolm was about to be killed and did nothing.

1:02.0

And we know that the FBI, the federal government, had infiltrated Malcolm's organization and the nation of Islam and was actively trying to sow dissent that would lead to division and perhaps murder.

1:13.9

And new out of this dock is this that really kills me.

1:18.1

Malcolm's main bodyguard was an NYPD infiltrator and secret informant.

1:24.8

Malcolm didn't know.

1:26.0

And he was standing right beside Malcolm when he was killed.

1:29.3

So he could have saved him.

1:31.3

He could have, and this part makes me so mad,

1:33.7

he could have helped identify his killer.

1:37.5

For now, it's the two directors of Who Killed Malcolm X on Netflix,

1:41.6

Rachel Dretzen and Phil Bertleton on Toray Show.

1:45.6

There are so many things in this documentary that blew me away.

1:53.3

And perhaps Malcolm's closest bodyguard was an NYPD plant.

2:05.5

That alone.

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