Malcolm X Killer Free After 45 Years

Thomas Hagan, the only man who admitted to having a role in Malcolm X's assassination in 1965, was released yesterday morning from Lincoln Correctional Facility in East Harlem. Hagan had been denied parole 16 times since he became eligible in 1980, but has been on work release since 1989. He admitted to shooting at the civil rights leader after another man already took a shot, and recently told the parole board, "My thoughts are that it never should have happened, number one, that I have a lot of regret about my actions and participating in that." He will presumably return to his family's home in Sunset Park; Malcolm X is still dead.