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McCormick to Alex Haley, March 16, 1965; Haley to McCormick, March 22, 1965; McCormick to Bob Banker, April 7, 1965; and McCormick to Haley and the Estate of Malcolm X, sometimes called Malik Shabazz, April 19, 1965, all in Anne Romaine Collection, UTLSC, series I, box 3, folder 23. In early March 1965, Nelson Doubleday, owner of Doubleday and Company, ordered his senior editor Kenneth McCormick to cancel the agreement. Doubleday had paid up to then over $15,000 in royalty advances to Haley and Malcolm X. McCormick would later write Haley that “the hardest thing I ever had to do was to call Paul Reynolds and ask him to show The Autobiography of Malcolm X to other publishers. In a policy decision at Doubleday, where I was a minor, contrary vote, it was decided that we could not publish the book.” See McCormick to Haley, March 16, 1965.

448 neighbors in his building, and so on. Friedly, Malcolm X: The Assassination, p. 36; and Norman 3X Butler interview, December 22, 2008.

448 chair and continued watching television. Evanzz, The Judas Factor, pp. 282, 303.

448 “John Ali made it known.” Thomas 15X Johnson interview, September 28, 2004.

448 “those living that’re in trouble.” DeCaro, On the Side of My People, pp. 274-75.

449 “the OAAU, and Malcolm was dead.” Angelou, A Song Flung Up to Heaven, pp. 24-25.

Chapter 16: Life After Death

450 participated in fifty thousand others. Goldman, The Death and Life of Malcolm X, p. 287.

450 was taken, which revealed “no abnormalities.ʺ Autopsy of Malcolm X, Dr. Milton Helpern, February 22, 1965, Case File 871-65, Series I, MANY.

451 by the NYPDʹs ballistics bureau. Ibid.

451 “he would not swear to this.” George Matthews interview with NYPD, April 8, 1965, Case File 871-65, Series I, MANY.

451 an NOI member from Harlem. Sharon 6X Shabazz interview at Audubon Ballroom, February 21, 1965, in documentary film produced by Omar Shabazz, Inside Job: Betrayal of the Black Messiah, May 19, 2010.

451 NYPD was solving the case. Friedly, Malcolm X: The Assassination, pp. 34-37.

452 “is all except Reuben Francis.” Sharon 6X Shabazz interview with NYPD, February 27, 1965, Case File 871-65, Series I, MANY.

452 relationship with both Malcolm X and Cathcart. Abdur-Rahman Muhammad interview, November 4, 2010.

452 “third row on the left side.” Earl Grant interview with NYPD, March 8, 1965, Case File 871-65, Series I, MANY.

452 “malice aforethought” killed Malcolm X. Goldman, The Death and Life of Malcolm X, pp. 305-7.

453 NYPD on March 25, 1965. Linwood X Cathcart interview with NYPD, March 25, 1965, Case File 871-65, Series I, MANY.

453 interviewed three days earlier. Robert 16X Gray interview with NYPD, March 22, 1965, ibid.

453 captain had been destroyed years ago. Joseph Gravitt file, empty, no date, ibid.

453 “that Francis was an informant.” Gerry Fulcher interview, October 3, 2007.

453 decided to flee the country. Peter Kihss, “Mosque Fires Stir Fear of Vendetta in Malcolm Case,” New York Times, February 24, 1965.

454 “were capable of doing it.” Peter Bailey interview, September 4, 1968.

454 “White and Black, Both Bitter.” Philip Benjamin, “Malcolm X Lived in Two Worlds, White and Black, Both Bitter,” New York Times, February 22, 1965.

455 “he spawned, and killed him.” “Malcolm X,ʺ New York Times, February 22, 1965. National press coverage and editorials throughout the United States were, with few exceptions, similar to the Times. The Los Angeles Times, for example, declared that “for a dozen years, the name of Malcolm X has been almost synonymous with hatred of the white race.” Even “after the break” with the Nation, “he made it clear that he still hated whites, whom he called ‘white devils.’” See “Hatred for Whites Obsessed Malcolm X,ʺ Los Angeles Times, February 22, 1965.

455 “at a nearby Harlem restaurant.” “Death and Transfiguration,” Time, March 5, 1965.

455 “settlement of conflict by violence.” “Malcolm X (1925-1965),” Saturday Evening Post, vol. 238, no. 6 (March 27, 1965), p. 88.

455 “city’s top policemen immediately