{"id":141113,"date":"2026-02-21T17:44:07","date_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:44:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141113\/"},"modified":"2026-02-21T17:44:07","modified_gmt":"2026-02-21T17:44:07","slug":"civil-rights-leader-omaha-native-assassinated-in-new-york-city","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/141113\/","title":{"rendered":"Civil rights leader, Omaha native assassinated in New York City"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">NEW YORK (WOWT) &#8211; On this day in 1965, religious leader and Omaha native <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2025\/09\/12\/today-history-sept-12-omaha-native-civil-rights-pioneer-recognized-nebraska-hall-fame\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noreferrer nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/2025\/09\/12\/today-history-sept-12-omaha-native-civil-rights-pioneer-recognized-nebraska-hall-fame\/\">Malcolm X<\/a> was assassinated in New York City.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">He was addressing the Organization of Afro-American Unity, which he founded, at the time of the shooting.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Three members of the Nation of Islam were charged with murder. All three were found guilty and sentenced to 20 years to life in prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Two of the three men were exonerated in 2021 after an investigation found key FBI documents had been withheld from both the defense and prosecution during the trial.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">&#8212;<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/community\/we-the-people\/history\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/community\/we-the-people\/history\/\">MORE LOCAL HISTORY<\/a><\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">On July 4, 2026, our country will celebrate its 250th birthday. Every day leading up to it, First Alert 6 will take a look at the people and events that shaped our area.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u2014<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | text-start article-text\">Get a first alert to severe weather approaching your area. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/page\/get-the-first-alert-weather-app\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" title=\"https:\/\/www.wowt.com\/page\/get-the-first-alert-weather-app\/\" target=\"_blank\">Download the First Alert 6 Weather app<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"copyright |\">Copyright 2026 WOWT. All rights reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"NEW YORK (WOWT) &#8211; On this day in 1965, religious leader and Omaha native Malcolm X was assassinated&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":141114,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[6],"tags":[59552,881,59548,25709,57,58612,59550,9,24,11,10,29902,59549,3646,59551],"class_list":["post-141113","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-new-york","tag-el-hajj-malik-el-shabazz","tag-history","tag-local-history","tag-malcolm-x","tag-metro","tag-nebraska","tag-nebraska-history","tag-new-york","tag-new-york-city","tag-new-york-headlines","tag-new-york-news","tag-omaha","tag-omaha-history","tag-today-in-history","tag-where-is-malcolm-x-from"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141113","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=141113"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/141113\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/141114"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=141113"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=141113"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ny\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=141113"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}