A week later, on February 21, 1965, three men charged the Audubon Ballroom stage at a meeting for the new Black nationalist group the Organization of Afro-American Unity. The armed infiltrators stood up and released a barrage of bullets from two semiautomatic handguns and a sawed-off shotgun. Wood quickly left the scene, and the iconic leader El-Hajj Malik El-Shabazz (Malcolm X) was rushed to a nearby hospital. Malcolm X was dead. Speed was still not satisfied.
