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Judi Lynn

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Sat Feb 27, 2021, 07:10 PM Feb 2021

An NYPD cop allegedly confessed to aiding Malcolm X's assassination. His daughter says his letter is

An NYPD cop allegedly confessed to aiding Malcolm X’s assassination. His daughter says his letter is fake.

By
Derek Hawkins
Feb. 27, 2021 at 4:44 p.m. CST

A letter purporting to contain a New York police officer’s deathbed confession about his involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X is a fake, the officer’s daughter said Friday, adding another wrinkle to decades-long investigations into the civil rights leader’s killing.

In an interview with NY1, Kelly Wood said there was no way her father, Raymond A. Wood, wrote the letter, in which he purportedly admitted to helping arrest members of Malcolm X’s security team days before the 1965 assassination.
“My father is not a coward. He would have never ever asked anybody to speak on his behalf after his passing,” she said. “If he had something to say, he would have said it when he was alive. I’m certain of that.”

The document made waves when it was released last week by Malcolm X’s three daughters, civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Wood’s cousin, Reggie Wood. They said Raymond Wood wrote it after falling ill in 2011 and asked that it not be made public until after he died.

The revelations seemed to bolster long-standing claims by some activists and historians that the New York Police Department and the FBI helped orchestrate the murder of Malcolm X, who was gunned down in a Harlem auditorium as he was preparing to speak.

More:
https://www.washingtonpost.com/history/2021/02/27/malcom-x-letter-fake/

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An NYPD cop allegedly confessed to aiding Malcolm X's assassination. His daughter says his letter is (Original Post) Judi Lynn Feb 2021 OP
I think the daughter's statement that dad would never do this can be disregarded. hedda_foil Feb 2021 #1
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