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got the real assassins or not. Of course, I think one of them was just paroled this past week. What was your impression? Was this a hired killing. Was this inspired by Elijah?

I don't know, and I don't even want to speculate. All I know is that Malcolm expected it. His home had been bombed. He expected that they would get him.

Of course he had bodyguards all the time, at least one--one or more.

That's right; there were bodyguards on the stage with him.

So if you were playing detective, would that suggest it had to be almost an inside job in some respect? They'd have to have the intelligence as to where the guards would be standing, and everything.

Sure.

Let me come to Thurgood Marshall. You've mentioned him before. Have you been contact with him lately? In the last few years, I mean?

Oh yes. I'm trying to think when I was last in touch with Thurgood. Yes, I talked with him, and tried to get him to accept an honorary degree from the Board of Regents in its bicentennial