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Malcolm X — Part 35
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Toison
CeLoach
Mohr
. Casper
- - Callahan
“He knew he was going down,
WAT CAT M CLAVING buried under a mountain of evi- Conrad
NTADVOLL OUP eed | dence, and he tried at the
” Felt
moment to do the noble Lf
CALLED A ‘LESGOW | See." —
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Somewhere along the line,” Sullivan
Prosecutor Charges Kiing| hej.went on, “it was decided, Tavel
- “| by’ whom J cannot say, inact ne saa
Was Intended as Warning |iwas a dead duck and that he Trotter
jshould take the fall.” Wick
_ Mr, Dermody, who spoke for le
By THOMAS BUCKLEY [4 hours and | oe ony of the 26 Tele. Room
Malcolm-X_was publicly se | hin ted by the state Holmes
sassinated as “an object wel aid a9 who, “appeared for the Gandy
to his followers, Assistant Dis-! qirendants.
Je crt aes yestecday. Der- “ayer, he noted, had been
_ piel eclared terday.
a The prosecutor, summing up! a bullet, asserted! red
Lt In the eight-week trial of the ye one of.” Malcolm's dy
. three men accused of the kill- guards, in his left thigh. Tiere
eo ing, did not, however, attempt coulda be no dispute that he jhad
Lo to ifink the murder directly €0 attended the meeting.
Jo the’ national leadership of the “put as to his contention that
: Blick Muslims. had never been a member of
e never said we'd prove the Muslims or, for that matter,
— that Elijah Muhammad ordered ger been in a Muslim mosque,
6k this death,” he declared “Ifhave y°; Dermody asked the jury to
been accused of putting’ the thay carefully photographs
Basak WMiclime an triat TF oevh-' ia
captured outside the iy dred
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+
: Black Muslims on trial I sub-' taken, according to testimony,
; mit this is not a fact. fi ' at Mosque No. 25 in Newark,
i However,” he continuéd, I snowing Hayer taking part in a
- submit that these three defend- ,arate demonstration.
ana ants are members of the Black as to the alibis of Butler
or Muslims and that these threede- and Johnson, who were arrested’
~s fendants caused his death,” Feb, 25 and March 3, thal.
Malcolm broke with the Mus- they spent the afternoon of th
lims, whose best known spokes- riurder with their families i
man he had become, in March, their Bronx apartments, M
1964, and set up the rival Or- termody said: ‘Somebody
— ganizajion of Afro-American tying.”
Ta Unity (Ind Muslim Mosque, Inc, —
us Fror that time until he was
riddled in a pistol-andshot-gun,
attack while addressing a meet-
ing of 400 persons at the Audu-
bon Ballroom on Feb, 21, 1965,
he often stated aS a certainty
that the Muslims would murder
” him.
a B nness of Killing Nq The Washington Post and
: ; Mr. Dermody contrastejf th . . . Times Herald
_ “prazenness” of the killing with . The Washington Daily News
, * ee ey carcied pir tami ioe The Evening Star
retly, puetly, in the dead of New York Herald Tribune
oy was it done in this New York Journal-American
wayT* he asked the Supreme New York Daily News
Court reason” ve New York Post
facing the panel of mine’ The New York Times in &
men ‘OM ule
derithing his statement with The Baltimore Sun
dopa tarans,of Bis ght /22- 3993 ALAA 00 vores
- it abusing your common QT REGORDED The New Leader
séfise to say that it was an, HR oe:: The Wall Street Journal
@odiject lesson to Malcolm's fol- Wiis 14 1966
lowers, telling them that this The Naticnal Observer
penne Tae happen and will People's Wor!d |
Date
Mr. Dermody, a member of : :
the District Attorney's office \ it
- for 25 years and a speci: vy!
in mupder trials, described Hify- re V
4 ers a jon on the witniss q | .
; stand fast Monday that he Hadi 44 7. Sy
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innocent a5 a “futile, despe- Ni he
rate gesture.” | \
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