Don Wildman

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.

Distributes widely.

It really makes him out to be quite a pop hero.

I remember the book around when I was young, all my sisters reading it in high school.

But after this...

passes, there's an interesting shift there as well.

The nation of Islam becomes increasingly fractured after his death, but that's probably in opposition or at least parallel with the rise of the successes of Martin Luther King's movement, the civil rights movement, right?

Yes.

And his message comes outside the traditional American black church, which Martin Luther King is building his movement from, of course.

That's right.

That's such an interesting parallel.