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21 Bernard Haire on two Oswalds: Ibid., p. 293.
22 Media and cover-up: This story is all drawn from Russell, On the Trail, pp. 34- 40, “The Media, the CIA, and the Cover-up.”
23 Media and JFKfilm: Fairness and Accuracy in Reporting (FAIR) report.
Chapter Four
1 Gordon Parks, “I was a Zombie Then—Like All [Black] Muslims, I Was Hypnotized,” Life magazine, March 5, 1965, p. 28.
2 Sources for the chapter: I’m drawing heavily on an excellent article by James W. Douglass (“The Murder and Martyrdom of Malcolm X”), in a book called The Assassinations that I gave a cover endorsement for when it came out in 2003. Douglass summarizes the investigations recounted in several other books: The Judas Factor, by Karl Evanzz (1992), Conspiracys: Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X, by Baba Zak A. Kondo (1993), and the much earlier book by Louis E. Lomax, To Kill a Black Man (1968). Lomax was working on a documentary film alleging that the American intelligence community—specifically the FBI and CIA—had a hand in Malcolm X’s assassination, when he died after the brakes on his car suddenly failed while he was driving to the studio on July 31, 1970.
3 FBI watching Malcolm X in prison: March 16, 1954, FBI report, captioned MALCOLM K. LITTLE, cited in Conspiracys: Unravelling the Assassination of Malcolm X, by Zak A. Kondo, Nubia Press, Washington, D.C., 1993.
4 Police inspector comment: The Autobiography of Malcolm X, as told to Alex Haley, Ballantine Books, New York, 1973, p. 309.
5 “neutralizing Malcolm X”: FBI HQ file on Elijah Muhammad; FBI NY file on Malcolm X, cited by Karl Evanzz, The Judas Factor: The Plot to Kill Malcolm X, Thunder’s Mouth Press, N.Y., 1992, p. 186.
6 John Ali background: “The Murder and Martyrdom of Malcolm X,” by James W. Douglass, in The Assassinations, edited by Jim DiEugenio and Lisa Pease, Feral House, 2003, pp. 378-379.
7 “dark night of social disruption”: Evanzz. pp. 226-227.
8 Ulasewicz: Douglass, p. 390.
9 Roberts with Malcolm X: Ibid., pp. 390-391.
10 Assassins come together: Ibid., p. 392.
11 John Ali on “life in danger”: Evanzz, pp. 247-48.
12 Malcolm X on “resources”: Ghosts in Our Blood, by Jan Carew, Lawrence Hill Books, Chicago, 1994, p. 39.
13 CIA report/knowledge: Evanzz, p. 254.
14 Hoover on “social revolution”: Evanzz, p. 258.
15 John Lewis: Walking with the Wind, by John Lewis, Simon & Schuster, N.Y., 1998, p. 288.
16 Louis Farrakhan: Douglass, p. 400.
17 “bad rap sheet”: The Death and Life of Malcolm X, by Peter Goldman, University of Illinois Press, 1979 second edition, p. 261.
18 French knowledge: Douglass, p. 404, citing Eric Norden, “The Murder of Malcolm X,” The Realist, February 1967, p. 12.
19 Firebombing of house: Douglass, p. 406.
20 “dry run”: Douglass, p. 407.
21 “marked for death”: Haley, p. 428; Evanzz, p. 293.
22 Assassination day: Douglass, citing numerous sources, pp. 411-415.
23 Trial and Hayer confession: Douglass, p. 413.
24 Background on suspects: Appendix to Kondo, pp. 203-04.
25 Ali-Hayer meeting:” Douglass, p. 411. The author notes, “Hayer denied this to Peter Goldman, per Goldman p. 432.”
26 Ameer death: Evanzz, pp. 314-15.
Chapter Five
1 King family and Ray: “Dexter King visits James Earl Ray in prison; says he believes Ray is innocent,” Jet, April 14, 1997.
2 Civil trial: http://www.maryferrell.org/wiki/index.php/Martin_Luther_King_Assassination.
3 FBI and King: Final Report of the Select Committee to Study Government Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activities, Book III, cited in Legacy of Secrecy, p. 550.
4 Hoover’s logs: “The Martin Luther King Conspiracy Exposed in Memphis,” by Jim Douglass, Spring 2000, Probe Magazine, at http://www.ratical.org/ratville/JFRK/MLKconExp.html.
5 Brown on evidence: Ibid.
6 Shot from bushes: Ibid.
7 Judge Joe Brown: “A King-Sized Conspiracy,” by Dick Russell, High Times magazine, 1999, http://www.dickrussell.org/articles/king.htm.
8 Justice Department memo: