*He was turned down for parole 16 times, but the 17th attempt has led to freedom Malcolm X’s only confessed assassin.
Thomas Hagan has been detained since moments after shots rang out in the Audubon Ballroom in 1965. He has been on work release for more than 20 years, but he still spends two days a week locked up at the Lincoln Correctional Facility on West 110th Street in Manhattan.
