https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assassination_of_Malcolm_X Malcolm X https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malcolm_X, an African American https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/African_American Muslim https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islam_in_the_United_States minister and human rights activist https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Human_rights_activists who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Civil_rights_movement, was shot multiple times and died from his wounds https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gunshot_wound in Manhattan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manhattan, New York City on February 21, 1965, at age 39. While preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Organization_of_Afro-American_Unity at the Audubon Ballroom https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Audubon_Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington_Heights,_Manhattan, Malcolm X was shot multiple times and killed. Three members of the Nation of Islam https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nation_of_Islam—Muhammad Abdul Aziz https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muhammad_Abdul_Aziz, Khalil Islam, and Thomas Hagan https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Hagan—were charged, tried, and convicted of the murder and given indeterminate life sentences, but in November 2021, Aziz and Islam were exonerated https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exoneration. Speculation about the assassination and whether it was conceived or aided by leading or additional members of the Nation, or by law enforcement agencies, has persisted for decades after the shooting. The assassination was one of four major assassinations of the 1960s in the United States, coming two years after the assassination of John F. Kennedy in 1963, and three years before the assassinations of Martin Luther King Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.[2]