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July 26, 2011

Justice Department Declines To Re-Investigate Malcolm X Assassination 
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The U.S. Department of Justice has declined a request to re-investigate
the 1965 assassination of Malcolm X. In a statement the department said,
"The matter does not implicate federal interests sufficient to
necessitate the use of scarce federal investigative resources into a
matter for which there can be no federal criminal prosecution." Calls
for a federal investigation have increased since a new biography on
Malcolm X by the late scholar Manning Marable alleged that the actual
killer is a man still living in Newark, New Jersey.



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