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Policeman maintains watch from roof of Unity funeral home where body of Malcolm X is reposing

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Fernandez, Orlando

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1965.
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  1. Assassination
  2. Homicides
  3. New York
  4. New York (State)
  5. Photographic Prints
  6. X, Malcolm

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