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Malcolm X — Part 23

129 pages · May 10, 2026 · Broad topic: Religion & Belief · Topic: Malcolm X · 129 pages OCR'd
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“Maleaim's Ss. abemesis, sect ue es ae ds Fariner, na- thf) Mince ar) 6Of 6CORE, ee -¢ for a Fedoral wubb sescisiv if isiims murdered aid Mr, Farmer. vAcone else was in- did not explaln Gi Sapa. .iy ad in mind. Ti.clem, stunned by a and | yesterday's ing, poHee rein- a ii Aeavy numbers be: .d the funeral home we.. the body of the flery “eycart-old who had come to ‘present the voice of Negro * stremism Will He until a tTuneral Saturday. There was an ominous spread co” the trouble and the fae New York Times treccive 2 bomb threat be- ‘srcu. a wlephone caller said, f “piv hac written “a bad vac” about Maleolm. A vatl Wes arrested at Lenox and 125in St. with a « deof rifle; police did nat oy whet he was doing there. Two younz men were seized : funcral Bera ene : prying a rifle | in a Toa 5 gare. oa, was < littie mrdcé pute? the investigations “15 Taurder av the sn othe mosque. A” 4m @rrested as one 1. 8SSESSInS remained ter v.cavy guard in Belle- ¥ie Hospital. Late in the day police. said testa confism: 2 2 in van and a pape. _ cag found on a er. cas the mosque had :in setting the fire. aed ~: ° fear that the wes? “WOuld spread fur- . a€nd tere was apecu- ‘la. about the burnin, of oe. MOSQUE. Wei cont know who did wi.” sand Joseph 2. an official “oy we Gurned-oub mosque, ow it was set off.” .. “There are those .5 be With us and ways of getting aiding.” ‘ .». talked with re- 5 . che office of the Mio: ~ SPADET, Mubat= - whe smoking. . “vik of the T. Ja. 7, 202 W. i.5th wh kre? the uv- seid, coulis L vurough an aiiey on tye pat ) was only & small hook on the wun, he sald: fire rules ited locking he * "ou must remember, he Fa id, “we ste dealing with second-story mon.” But he did not say directly Liat he theurat foleacrs of Malcolm X% were responsible for the fier bombing, which occurred despite hundreds of police reinforcements that had pourtd inte serie Me did say. as hi leader L..iah Mukamniad had said in Thin. 9 bbe day Eviore, that the E ced slirns had woth'ng io ds with the public exect..on of thelr most famous dissident. “Our hands are clean,” sald Joseph X. Bat hundreds of poiice, in- cluding more than 100 brawny Fes members of the Tactical Force,. - stood by In Harlem, and hune dreds of olhers were poised to join them. Within minutes after yesterday morning's five glarm 320 cxtra ‘police from Brookiyn. Qucens Bronx were spe: hattan’s Neerc One focal po. Ke of and to cyan- cyeie wor= ties was i.> “Unity Puneral s Home, nen Un Av, ob 1Ddth : St. » whe. Lisle Air's body * ut” lie un’ far soaturday. “pt falc, board : istec Led : are. = eoGen | sgisise ec hey searched “all persons entering there, they CARD PET eE Gas see ye Deel a 4 “possible devices and they in- “vestigated a serles of bomb _threats. yesterday. One caller gave what he said 5, ieru d inte Madcolm 7 Ainspected all floral wreaths for- J was his name—funeral director Joseph E. Hall saic rer r izec. Le merc as thins oh he had buriec some me “ape and seid tit “Bo TfOln Wore be burrica . 24 Pall ce ore- mated.” No end was in sight, it seemed clear, to the violence and retaliatory violence among Negro extremis: groups thet began Sunday with the gangiand-style exe- cution of Malcolm X. . There was @ pale echo in San Francisco of the furious fire that destroyed the méin Black 3fuslim mosque in New York. Someone threw kero- sene on the door of the Mus- tim meeting place in San ancisco and lit it, bub two patrolling policemen spotted’ - the blaze quicklyand damage Was slight. . | In Boston a man who broke dwith t> e Muslim movement ‘said tint heavsweight cham- \plor: oe sis Ciry who was re=- ., Muslims by é. mained after was in danger ‘ wico.m's followers. i try to get back at in some way to vo ae Pe ral ofM a 4 ais! SOME TMTET I Oo," BS vnetic. ‘Clay has that In Chicags nolice maintained @ massive guard around the 19-room mansion of Muslim leader Elijah Muhammad. Alerted by reports that some of Maicolm's followers were eheend convent Elijah is to spcak. New York uniformed poe: and detectives waiched potential trouble spots incluc- ing other Muslim nicsques at 165-05 Northern 3: ona, and 119-09 Sutphi Jamaica, both Qucens. Authorities braced to lait an escalation, in gangis os Tong War styie, of taliatory violence apparent’ signaled by the mosque fre. There had been a meeting in the mosque Monday but it ended before midnisht and the four-story building stood dark and padiocked when the four-member police guard changed at 2 4. m. The mosque was one of the places where police stood by in fear that the murder of Maleolm X would ° ctort « hhaales era dati seen start a bloody vendetta among Negro fringe groups. “We came on at 2 a.m, and we checked all the doors,” said Patrolman John L. Waterman of the 123d St. station. “At about 2:15 a.m. I heard a mul- vee explosion followed by s8 falling on me. About 16 Piinates later the Hames broke out from the roof.” The corner of Lenox and 116th never really quiets and even in the icy early morning Floese H6e8 eb Seay alii slalig cold spectators poured out from the nearby tenements and bars and restaurants. _.. The manager of the Holly- ee eS Se Er EH a SE nie suena nap EL OEY
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