56 Years Ago, He Shot Malcolm X. Now He Lives Quietly in Brooklyn.

Mujahid Abdul Halim is the one man who confessed to his role in the assassination. He long insisted that the two men convicted with him were innocent.

Waiting in the holding area of a Manhattan courthouse in 1966, Talmadge Hayer turned to the two men who were standing trial with him. He told them that he intended to confess to his role in the assassination of Malcolm X and make it clear that they were innocent.

“I just want to tell the truth, that’s all,” he said when he took the stand.

But the jury was not convinced. Mr. Hayer had told a different story earlier in the trial, and he still refused to name his co-conspirators or to say who they were working for. Eleven days later, the jury convicted all three men of first-degree murder.