Know the whole history and pay our respects. Ase? The following February, Mrs. Kochiyama was in the audience at the Audubon Ballroom in the Washington Heights section of Manhattan waiting to hear Malcolm X address a new group he had founded, the Organization of Afro-American Unity, when there was a burst of gunfire. She ran toward the stage. I just went straight to Malcolm, and I put his head on my lap, she recalled. He just lay there. He had difficulty breathing, and he didn’t utter a word. A powerful photograph of her holding him accompanied an article about the assassination in the March 5, 1965, issue of Life magazine.
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