and new leaders sprang up on the local and international s e the day he died was sunday my wife and i and the children had been downtown to breakfast had been shot i went to the audubon with my sixteen year old son billy and as leave and walked into the ballroom i felt that people seem edgy that day i've by the time we got there i think half the ballroom was filled but we did get seats around the tenth or eleventh were on the left hand side and it happened to be just right across from the cent that incident of get your hands out of my pocket happened we looked at each other and there was not much to say we knew him the children knew him he'd come to our home we drove home and left the children with somebody and then we drove back to harlem because that's what he was and that's when we felt the need to need to be at that time you know the news of his death in and told me that you know mark and sharp and to me and i think a lot of every black intellectual fessor was a declaration of war in america under threat you know america need to be destroyed you know i while everybody's eyes was fixed on the two men in the middle the shotgun blast went off at that time i mean there was utter chaos people were screaming and and hitting the floor you could hear all the chairs coming down but i saw a brother run up the stage so i thought i'll follow him and see if i could get to malcolm i met him twice in the last time i met him we talked along comes through the night you know  had fallen over backward but he was flat on his back i could see that he was hit many times i thought there was only one or two shots but it seemed like there was some he already had so many wounds on his chest one around here and one in his hands i hope that it wasn't serious but already the way he was raising or having difficulty breathing  from so we had been able to save him we felt guilty about that and we were a bit apprehensive too because we knew that there was an eerie quiet in the community which might explode every moment but that afternoon as the sun went out and we walked the streets and the lights came on and everybody looked we shook hands and we talked and we remembered what we know then is trying to destroy our leader and our own position with his little eyes and propaganda yes yes teach i would just send a knife or up to my room no no everything is fine for sevent the purpose of today's meeting is to discuss what is going on on the continent of africa in angola and what is going on on the continent of america with the afro americans we know that the c i is financing white mercenaries and angola and as long as there are white people going over there and killing so many people have so much to gain for me two men last night recognized me and i recognize them too why don't you come and say i will do the family before way off on the main work now i can drive you to the wall oh thank you brother same as i have my car why don't you join me for breakfast the people of china are tired of the oppressors and the people rose up against their oppressors it with easy to say the odds were against them but eleven of them started out and today those eleven controlled eight hundred million they would have been told back then that the odds were against them the oppressor always points out to the oppressed the arts are against you fidel castro was up in the mountains of cuba they told him the odds were against him on sunday i didn't know what seems to be a problem we've been reading a lot about you and some of the things you could because i love fences some of the things happening to black people in this country are offensive we don't want to debate with you sir honestly we're just trying to do our job if you talk about you start to landmarks and how they should be destroyed why so many of people who did exactly that the back clue that the f b i man and my organization you know about that want to do something about that black people are being killed in this country every day i want to do something about that or you come in here telling me something insane about someone who was obviously crazy maybe we could do something maybe i do want to build up your hopes but if you were willing to sign a papers i would sign anything you the same people that we can do anything until they make their move on to like oh they kill me right you people know me well enough to know that i won't give you any information because i don't have any information my life is an open book yeah people follow me everywhere i go a little bit of i do try to kill me well let's look at it this way we'd be willing to and decide my reason for being we can support your organization now my friend to the contrary away from religion altogether we believe that islam and allah has brought us world riches both of you have a means speaking all black america was the teachings of white right the knowledge of what he use property minister i am here to because i believe the majority of the world's population is a darker people i welcome this opportunity to invite you to gonna talk it all university we invite you to mecca to learn the ways of allah to oh i'll stay here i appreciate your offer record you can please excuse found was disconnected i think the wire was cut yes he's with me right here i'm five children a fine too you are right yes i'm fine sir think i must have hurt someone very bad gave them i wish you were my father i really do miss a minute and one day one day i will be head of this organization and i will brother and sisters we are happy to see so many of you out on this lovely sunday at the base of the meeting this afternoon with the boy but for the survival with black people in america that survival depends on the survival of the black man in africa do you know who they are who said our house on fire who cut a while yes can we do anything are you going to die and our frame of reference and reminded us that in order to be free we must first be men even if like him we have to die for it