Malcolm X on 'The Big News' With Bill Beutel

Excerpts from an interview with Malcolm X, president of the black nationalist and Sunni Islamic Muslim Mosque, Inc. (MMI), by WABC-TV, New York, correspondent Bill Beutel (1930-2006), place, date and broadcast not provided by the source. However, it was apparently conducted at the Americana Hotel (now the Sheraton New York Hotel and Towers), 7th Avenue and 52nd Street, New York, on May 25, 1964, and broadcast on "The Big News." Beutel is not seen or heard in these excerpts, but appears in other excerpts in "Malcolm X Speaks," a documentary that was produced by Charles Hobson and directed and written by Gil Noble for "Like It Is," WABC-TV's long-running black affairs series, originally broadcast on Feb. 21, 1969. This provisional identification of this interview is based on a paragraph in the epilogue of "The Autobiography of Malcolm X" (New York: Ballantine, 1964, 1965) by Alex Haley, Malcolm X's ghostwriter. Haley recalled an interview that Beutel conducted with Malcolm X, who had broken with Elijah Muhammad's "race"-centered, politically conservative Nation of Islam (NOI) two months before, in Haley's room at the Americana Hotel shortly after the African American Muslim and nationalist leader returned to the United States from his hajj, or religious pilgrimage, to the Muslim holy cities of Mecca and Medina, Saudi Arabia, on May 21, 1964. As a result of his pilgrimage, Malcolm X earned the right to add the honorific title "El-Hajj" to his Muslim name, Malik El-Shabazz ...



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