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The Assassination of Malcolm X

The Assassination of Malcolm X

2017 - revised 2025
File size: 19625px x 15079px
Print size: 72" x 52” 300dpi
Electronic painting

It is a time for martyrs now, and if I am to be one, it will be for the cause of brotherhood. That’s the only thing that can save this country.
February 19, 1965

Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom, Washington Heights, NYC, as he was about to deliver a speech introducing the Organization of Afro-American Unity.

The narrative composition is assembled from manipulated archival photographs and film stills taken shortly after the assassination with the addition of subsequent crime scene photographs.

This is the final work in the tetralogy of modern American assassinations, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.

The Assassination of Malcolm X, complete electronic painting

2017 Version