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Malcolm X — Part 12

93 pages · May 10, 2026 · Document date: Sep 19, 1963 · Broad topic: General · Topic: Malcolm X · 93 pages OCR'd
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"2 (MALCOLM X SCORES | US. AND KENNEDY Likens Slaying to ‘Chickens Coming Home to Roost’ Malcolm KX, « leader of the Black Muslims, yesterdey char- acterizedi the assassination of President Kennedy as an in- stance of “the chickens coming home to roost.” Accusing Mr. Kennedy of i {i“twiddiing his thumbs’ ef the ,Killing af Routh “Vietnamese) | President Ngo Dink Diem and hig brother, Ngo. Dirh Nhu, Maleoim X told a Black Muslin rally at the Manhsttan Center that he “never foresaw that the chickens would come Bome to) cerTICAL OF KENNEDY: roost #0 s0Gr.” ie an old| Malcolm X, leader of the farm boy myself, ens tom-| Black Muslims, daring & ing home to roost never did| speech at Manhketias Center. [Bike me aad; teeye always = made me. glad.” remarks on 1 ihe Kennedy assassination were|nerve ¢o say it than that I really iade at a point when the audl-lapproved of .” Jliorium wes open to questions! piatcclm K was especiaily land comment from the floor. | leughter joud applause and. sch on Washington. ae 7 pepers Chided charged thet the Negro leaders Meters x ved the of the march were actually in a ee a crowd, as of g “white Uberel ‘estimated at about 700, thatthe employ tummedistely after Mr. Ken-[conspirecy thst tucluded Presi- 'nedy’s aasassination the Black dent Kennedy and that was de jMustim leaderabip had beenivoted to “tokenism.” In one ret- asked for commenta by the! ence to the march, which had Bnewspapers, He charg this ‘wag an attempt to trap the the Lincoln and Washington me- Ilargpanigation inte = “fanatiejmorials as main, focal points, jaiGesbly dagmatic™ statement. Matepim X said: } ;He said the press was looking| -By keeping them yiarching; © 4 for such s remark as: “Hooray.lbetween two dead Presidents! (2. hooray! Ym giad he got 31!" liney never had a chance to With thie exclamation, there!reach the then ve President”) b» was morg Jaughler and sp-| The rally was closed to white] & plause. men, except for members df tue In further criticism of Mr. press, who were searched thor- iennedy, the Muslim leaderiouphly by some of the scores of] 3 cited the murders of Patrict(ptack Mustim cadre stationed) 3 Lumumba, Congo leader, of Med=i:nroughout the hall as police-; ; gar Evers, civil rights Jeader|mer, ° and of the Negro girls. bombed : earlier this year 9 a Blrming-|, . tam. church. These, he aid, . were Instances of other “ehick-| 20. ...00.. USE Nora sew ens coming home to roost. * an “They've got come home : comme day" He ae LAST WEEK Throughout his address, which ‘asted an hour, Mace Xe| OF RACING vested a previous contention hat the B Musiim move- E BIG A nent js based on monotheistic ove and tolerance of e]] man, neluding white men, However, ye said that while his followers were nonviolent, they were en- ‘ouraged for of self. leferise to study judo and karate ‘nd “everything else you should earn that will show you how to week @ white man’s neck.) Again there was applause and) ° aughter. : Later s member of the audi. once who declined to be ident!- ‘ied told a reporter his enjoy- ment of thia remark was: “more ‘oy the fact that he had the|g
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