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EXONERATED: After 56 years, 2 men cleared in murder of Malcolm X
NEW YORK (AP) - More than half a century after the assassination of Malcolm X, two of his convicted killers were exonerated Thursday after decades of doubt about who was responsible for the civil rights icon's death. A Manhattan judge dismissed the convictions of Muhammad Aziz and the late Khalil Islam, after prosecutors and the men's lawyers said a renewed investigation found new evidence that the men were not involved with the killing and determined that authorities withheld some of what they knew. "The event that has brought us to court today should never have occurred," Aziz, 83, told the court. He and Islam, who maintained their innocence from the start in the 1965 killing at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights, were paroled in