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 Xs 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 officers deathbed confession about his involvement in the assassination of Malcolm X is a fake, the officers daughter said Friday, adding another wrinkle to decades-long investigations into the civil rights leaders 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 Xs 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. Im certain of that.
The document made waves when it was released last week by Malcolm Xs three daughters, civil rights attorney Ben Crump and Woods 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.
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