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A look back on the coverage of the Malcolm X assassination as told by the Chicago Daily News, sister publications of the Chicago Sun-Times:
Malcolm X may not have been a Chicagoan, but given his ties to Elijah Muhammad and the Nation of Islam, which was based on the South Side, he passed through the city often enough.
The fiery speaker and activist was assassinated by several rival Black Muslim members in a crowded ballroom during an Organization of Afro-American Unity rally in New York City on Feb. 21, 1965. The next day, the Chicago Daily News devoted most of its front page to coverage of his death.