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Farrakhan Admits Role in Murder
By David Bauder AP Television Writer Wednesday, May 10, 2000;
2:32 p.m. EDT
NEW YORK –– Nation of Islam leader Louis Farrakhan admits his
complicity in the 1965 murder of Malcolm X while seated across the
table from the civil rights leader's oldest daughter in a "60 Minutes"
interview to be broadcast Sunday.
Attallah Shabazz later issued a statement thanking Farrakhan for
acknowledging his role and said: "I wish him peace."
Shabazz, then 6, saw her father gunned down in the Audobon
Ballroom in Harlem on Feb. 21, 1965. Three men with ties to the
Nation of Islam were convicted in the slaying.
A year earlier, Malcolm X's criticism of Nation of Islam spiritual
leader Elijah Muhammad had caused a bitter split with church leaders,
including Farrakhan. Farrakhan called Malcolm X a traitor and wrote,
two months before the killing, that "such a man is worthy of death."
Farrakhan has denied ordering the assassination but later admitted to
having "helped create the atmosphere" that led to it.
His four-hour meeting with Shabazz and "60 Minutes" correspondent
Mike Wallace, organized at her request, took place at Farrakhan's
home in Arizona.
Farrakhan told them that he "truly loved" Malcolm X and carried his
picture after his death. Shabazz's body visibly stiffened, arms crossed
over her chest, when Wallace quoted from Farrakhan's writings about
Malcolm X before he died.
During the interview, Farrakhan said that the U.S. government spied
on black leaders and were concerned about a "black messiah" who
could unite the community. "This is bigger than the Nation of Islam,"
he said.
Shabazz, struggling to keep control of her emotions, said that while
she believed the FBI had something to do with her father's death, it
was young black men who shot him.
"You can't keep pointing fingers," she said. "My father was not killed
from a grassy knoll."
Farrakhan said: "Yes, it is true that black men pulled the trigger. We
cannot deny any responsibility in this. Where we are responsible,
where our hands are a part of this, we beg God's mercy and
forgiveness."
"I genuinely hope that perhaps a healing can come to Miss Shabazz
and her family," he continued. "As I may have been complicit in words
that I spoke leading up to February 21st, I acknowledge that and
regret that any word that I have said caused the loss of life of a human
being."
Shabazz's reaction to these words aren't shown. Wallace said she
needed time to absorb them. She issued a statement this week.
"He's never admitted this before publicly," she said. "Until now, he's
never caressed my father's children. I thank him for acknowledging his
culpability and I wish him peace."
Shabazz's mother, Betty Shabazz, who died in 1997, had publicly
accused Farrakhan of a role in the murder. She reconciled with him
after her daughter Qubilah was charged in 1994 with plotting to hire a
hitman to kill him. The charges were later dropped.
Wallace said he believed that Farrakhan, who has battled prostate
cancer and other health problems, is making amends partly because
he has faced his own mortality.
Earlier this year, Farrakhan publicly embraced W. Deen Mohammed,
son of Elijah Muhammad, in an attempt to heal wounds that have split
U.S. Muslims into factions.
"I think that he has thought seriously about the people he has
disaffected," Wallace said in an interview.
Shabazz said it was still difficult for her to meet with Farrakhan on
camera. "I did not know if I wanted to sit across from him," she said.
"I did not know if my heart could handle it."
© Copyright 2000 The Associated Press
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