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District Attorney Admits: Malcolm X Killers Are Innocent

55 YEARS LATER

Muhammad A. Aziz and Khalil Islam are expected to be exonerated on Thursday after a 22-month investigation.

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In a long overdue exoneration, two of the men convicted of the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X are expected to finally have their names cleared on Thursday—more than a half-century after they were accused of killing the civil rights icon.

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