Wikipedia's first sentence called it “conceived or aided by leading or additional members of the nation”. Today it says “conceived or aided by leading or additional members of the nation of islam”.
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The opening as it read in 2025
1965 murder in New York City, US Malcolm X , an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement , was shot multiple times and died from his wounds in Manhattan , New York City, on February 21, 1965, at the age of 39 while preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights . Three members of the Nation of Islam — Muhammad Abdul Aziz , Khalil Islam, and Thomas Hagan —were charged, tried, and convicted of the murder and given indeterminate life sentences, but in November 2021, Aziz and Islam were exonerated . Speculation about the assassination and whether it was conceived or aided by leading or additional members of the Nation, or by law enforcement agencies, particularly the FBI and CIA, has persisted for decades after the shooting. The assassination was one of four major assassinations of the 1960s in the United States , coming less than 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.
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The opening as it stood on October 6, 2023
1965 murder in New York City, US Malcolm X , an African American Muslim minister and human rights activist who was a popular figure during the civil rights movement , was assassinated in Manhattan , New York City on February 21, 1965. While preparing to address the Organization of Afro-American Unity at the Audubon Ballroom in the neighborhood of Washington Heights , Malcolm X was shot multiple times and killed. Three members of the Nation of Islam — Muhammad Abdul Aziz , Khalil Islam, and Thomas Hagan —were charged, tried, and convicted of the murder and given indeterminate life sentences, but in November 2021, Aziz and Islam were exonerated . 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.
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conceived or aided by leading or additional members of the nation
Now
conceived or aided by leading or additional members of the nation of islam
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