Marable Manning: Interviewed about Malcolm X  AMY GOODMAN:
Today, we spend the hour examining the life and death of Malcolm
X, one of the most influential political figures of the
twentieth century. Saturday would have been Malcolm X's eighty-
second birthday. This is Malcolm X speaking a week before he was
assassinated in 1965.  MALCOLM X: …my house was bombed. It was
bombed by the Black Muslim movement upon the orders of Elijah
Muhammad. Now, they had come around to -- they had planned to do
it from the front and the back so that I couldn't get out. They
covered the front completely, the front door. Then they had come
to the back, but instead of getting directly in back of the
house and throwing it this way, they stood at a forty-five
degree angle and tossed it at the window so it glanced and went
onto the ground. And the fire hit the window, and it woke up my
second oldest baby. And then it -- but the fire burned on the
outside of the house.  But had that fire -- had that one gone
through that window, it wo