Don Wildman

This is what starts a real controversy that people start sending death threats and all the rest of it.

Did he know where those threats were coming from?

We'll just go through those events in detail in a moment, but I just want to really emphasize the change in his thinking that had happened at this point.

A much more universalist idea was what was behind the Muslim Mosque organization, right?

That's right.

Can you define that more, explain where he had landed as a man?

Because certainly when you see the movies, there's a kind of a very general idea there, and it seems in Malmstrom's case that that would be very specific and very certain.

Yeah.

The tragedy, of course, is a man and a husband and father dies, but it's also that this amazing intellect and this amazing spirit had arrived at a place which was unique.

And no telling where that would have led to, you know?

That's right.

This man is 39 when he dies in... Very young.

Yeah, incredible, incredible thing now that I'm far beyond that.

Me too.

February 21st, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom, which you can still visit here in New York area where I live.

It's in Washington Heights.

He is gunned down.

And there are three members of the Nation of Islam who are arrested for this crime.

But boy, are there theories on how that really came to pass and worth investigating.

The autobiography of Malcolm X is published in 1965, which is a remarkable timing of that.