**FILE** Civil Rights Leader Malcolm X addresses the media at the Hotel Park-Sheraton in New York City in this March 12, 1964 file photo. Khalil Islam, a man convicted of killing Malcolm X, and admirers of the slain civil rights leader were holding separate events Thursday, Feb 21, 2008, in New York City to mark the 43rd anniversary of Malcolm X’s assassination. A Nation of Islam member who broke from the group about a year before his death, Malcolm X was fatally shot during a speech after a disturbance broke out at the Audubon Ballroom in the Harlem section of New York City on Feb. 21, 1965. (AP Photo/File)



