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NEW YORK, (GaeaTimes.com)- He was called Talmadge Hayer when he fired bullets from his hand gun straight into the chest of Malcolm X.
A timeline of key dates leading up to the assassination of civil rights leader Malcolm X and the prosecution of the convicted killers:
- March 9, 1964: Once a leading spokesman for Elijah Muhammad's Nation of Islam, Malcolm X announces that he is breaking with Elijah Muhammad's Black Muslim group and organizing his own.
NEW YORK - The only man ever to admit involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X was freed on parole Tuesday, 45 years after he helped gun down the civil rights leader.