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Lawyers for Malcolm X’s family revealed an ‘explosive’ new witness on 25 July.

The killing of Malcolm X in New York City’s Audubon Ballroom was one of the most high-profile assassinations of the Civil Rights era - and lawyers said a new witness bolsters their claims that his killing was part of a government conspiracy.

Ben Crump, a civil rights attorney for Macolm X’s family, said: “We are putting forward in our legal action that the government was involved in the conspiracy to kill Malcolm X.”

Ilyasah Shabazz, Malcolm X’s daughter, said: “We simply want the truth to be known, the history books to reflect the orchestration of the assassination of our father and we want justice to be served.”

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00:00 And can you point out the terrorism of the Frenchmen?
00:07 [INAUDIBLE]
00:09 We simply want the truth to be known, the history books
00:14 to reflect, the orchestration of the assassination of our father.
00:24 And we want justice to be served.
00:26 Because I think what history has recorded is inaccurate.
00:33 So we want the truth to be known.
00:38 We want the history books to reflect that truth.
00:41 And we would like justice to be served.
00:45 We are putting forth in our legal action
00:50 that the government was involved in the conspiracy
00:54 to kill Malcolm X. They did not allow anybody
01:01 to reveal their presence or what they were doing in the Audubon
01:07 Ballroom.
01:09 Eugene Roberts said they had a dry run in his estimation
01:14 of what was going on.
01:16 He saw that in hindsight.
01:17 But he didn't even know what was going on.
01:20 And he is a confirmed informant.
01:23 Do you think Hayer was working as an undercover police
01:28 officer, an NYPD officer undercover,
01:32 or do you think Hayer was an informant working with the NYPD
01:36 from the outside?
01:38 Let me reiterate from the affidavits.
01:41 He is the person leaving the Audubon as fast as he could run
01:46 in a loping kind of a run, which I later found out
01:49 was, of course, one of the security people
01:51 who shot him in the leg.
01:53 But he is a person who was running out
01:56 with a pistol in his hand, waving the pistol in the air,
01:59 getting people out of his way.
02:01 And I was the primary person in his way
02:04 because I had left the position where I'd been reposted
02:07 and was headed towards Malcolm.
02:10 [BLANK_AUDIO]
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