They were American tourists hoping for a good time, they said. Then they became captives of an autocratic government.

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US black nationalist leader Malcolm X was assassinated on 21 February 1965, at the age of 39. The BBC reported on the reaction in his adopted home of Harlem, New York, as thousands of people queued to ...