Three daughters of Malcolm X accused the CIA, the FBI, and the New York Police Department of being involved in their father's assassination, a notable activist in the '60s. The lawsuit, for about 100 million dollars, was filed this Friday in a federal court in Manhattan, where the crime took place. The women stated that the three agencies were aware, participated in the assassination plot, but did not prevent it.
Attorney Ben Crump described the lawsuit saying he hoped that federal and municipal officials "will learn about all the nefarious actions taken by their predecessors and attempt to correct these historical wrongs." At the time, three men had been convicted for the activist's death, but two of them were exonerated in 2021 after investigators reviewed the case.
Malcolm X's family asserts in the lawsuit that the prosecution concealed the government's involvement in the assassination. Malcolm X was 39 years old when he was killed on February 21, 1965, at the Audubon Ballroom in Manhattan while giving a speech. The activist and religious minister was born in Omaha, Nebraska, originally named Malcolm Little, but later changed his name to El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz when he converted to Islam.
