On Feb. 20, Reginald Wood Jr., a bespectacled, balding man in a dark suit and striped tie, walked across the wooden stage to the podium at the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center in Manhattan.
"This letter," Reggie said somberly,"helps me to understand the pain and guilt that Ray felt over the last 55 years.""I participated in actions that in hindsight were deplorable and detrimental to the advancement of my own black people," Ray Wood allegedly wrote on Jan. 25, 2011. The letter fed long-held questions and conspiracy theories by implying that the NYPD and J. Edgar Hoover's FBI knew when the assassination would go down and that they actively plotted to help make it happen. It also held out the possibility, both painful and tantalizing, that the life of Malcolm, a fearless champion of Black people, might have been saved.
Yet in the weeks since, a growing chorus of Malcolm X experts, as well as the detective's daughter, have questioned everything from the historical veracity of the letter's contents to the way it was written and signed. In an interview with The Washington Post, Crump said the Hampton case and the nefarious practices of the NYPD and FBI in the 1960s are exactly why he thought the letter needed to be taken seriously. The targeting and surveillance of Black civil rights leaders then are echoed today in the FBI's recent practice of labeling Black Lives Matter activists"Black Identity Extremists," he said.
While she spoke at the news conference about the need to investigate"any evidence" surrounding her father's assassination, Ilyasah Shabazz was not endorsing the letter's credibility, said Ron Baldwin, a business associate authorized to speak on her behalf. As he spoke, Reggie's voice rose to an anxious crescendo, no longer the measured tones of the man who spoke on the stage just a few weeks earlier.Ray Wood was a tall, broad-shouldered Air Force veteran in his early 30s when he joined the detective division of the New York Police Department in 1964.
BOSSI preferred men with military training and intentionally did not send them to the police academy so that they would be less likely to use police slang or exhibit other telltale behaviors, said David Viola, an adjunct history professor at John Jay College of Criminal Justice in New York who has researched Wood's role in the Statue of Liberty plot.
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