Gordon Belray
The Assassination of Malcolm X
The Assassination of Malcolm X
2017, Revised 2020
72" x 52”
Archival print
Malcolm X was assassinated on February 21, 1965 at the Audubon Ballroom, Washington Heights, NYC, as he was about to deliver a speech introducing the Organization of Afro-American Unity.
The compostion is made from photographs and fill stills taken shortly after his assassination and from subsequent crime scene photographs.
This is the final work in the tetralogy of modern American assassinations, John Kennedy, Martin Luther King and Robert Kennedy.
Malcolm X succumbs to gunshot wounds on the stage of the Audubon Ballroom.
Betty Shabazz, Malcolm's wife, weeps over his body while Yuri Kochiyama, a civil rights activist, supports his head.
2017 Version
