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	History of WaHI: Audubon Ballroom - Washington Heights & Inwood Online
		The Audubon Ballroom and Theater, located at 3940 Broadway between 165th and 166th Streets, was opened in 1912 by William Fox.
		The Audubon had his name emblazoned on the marquee and was a considerable financial investment in which he made sure that income would be forthcoming to repay for the original cost of the building.
		It is a good thing that the Audubon Ballroom was not razed because it is important to preserve its history and as a result it may create jobs in the long run.
	www.washington-heights.us /history/archives/audubon_ballroom_73.html (3950 words)

	Audubon Ballroom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
		The Audubon Ballroom is most notoriously known as where Malcolm X was assassinated.
		It was a ballroom adjacent to a theatre located in Washington Heights, a neighborhood north of Harlem, on the island of Manhattan.
		It was recently demolished against the wishes of many in the community, to make way for expanding research centers belonging to Columbia Presbyterian Hospital.
	en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Audubon_Ballroom (144 words)

	Audubon Ballroom - Biocrawler (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Audubon Ballroom in New York City became famous on February 21, 1965 three gunmen rushed onstage.
		Forty years later, on February 21, 2005, the Audubon Ballroom announced plans to metamorphisize their historic, yet sorrow-filled building into a tributary educational center in honor of Malcolm X, to be named the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center.
		This new historical landmark will house various documents, such as speeches, memoirs and notes, which were rescued by Malcolm’s family.
	www.biocrawler.com /encyclopedia/Audubon_Ballroom (327 words)

	NationMaster - Encyclopedia: Audubon Ballroom (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Audubon Ballroom is most notoriously known for being the location where Malcom X was assassinated in 1965.
		It was a ballroom adjacent to a theatre located at Broadway and 166th St. in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, a diverse neighborhood north of Harlem, on the island of Manhattan.
		It was recently (as of 2004) demolished against the wishes of many in the community, to make way for expanding research centers belonging to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
	www.nationmaster.com /encyclopedia/Audubon-Ballroom (422 words)

	A New Yorker After Nature - February 24, 2005 - The New York Sun
		Audubon's mother died while he was still in his infancy.
		(Audubon claimed he had studied under David, though this has not been proved.) At 18, Audubon moved to the United States to manage a farm his father owned outside of Philadelphia.
		For the next several years, John-James Audubon, as he was now known, entered into several abortive business enterprises, alone and in partnerships, in New York, Louisville, New Orleans, and elsewhere.
	www.nysun.com /article/9677 (629 words)

	Audubon Ballroom: Facts and details from Encyclopedia Topic (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Audubon Ballroom in New York City became famous on February 21, EHandler: no quick summary.
		Karim had previously vowed to never set foot again inside the Audubon Ballroom since Malcolm’s brutal murder.
		All that changed as Karim and numerous others seemed confident the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center will enlighten new generations of Malcolm’s plight for civil rights and equality.
	www.absoluteastronomy.com /encyclopedia/a/au/audubon_ballroom.htm (854 words)

	Assassination of Malcolm X, Black Muslim - The Crime library
		The Audubon Ballroom was almost full on that cold February day in
		Inside the Audubon Ballroom, several dark-suited NOI guards were positioned near the stage and towards the rear of the room. As soldiers of the NOI, the militancy of the neatly dressed men was evident in their demeanor, as they surveyed the room, quietly watching the seating of late arrivals.
		One of the assassins managed to escape by climbing through a bathroom window, while two other accomplices tried to flee down a flight of stairs and were pummeled with chairs and whatever else the angry and frightened crowd could find. One suspect, 22-year old Talmadge Hayer (aka.
	www.crimelibrary.com /terrorists_spies/assassins/malcolm_x/3.html (644 words)

	Malcolm X
		Malcolm X, the 39-year-old leader of a militant fl nationalist movement, was shot to death yesterday afternoon at a rally of his followers in a ballroom in Washington Heights.
		They came early to the Audubon Ballroom, perhaps drawn by the expectation that Malcolm X would name the men who firebombed his home last Sunday, streaming from the bright afternoon sunlight into the darkness of the hall.
		The crowd was larger than usual for Malcolm's recent meetings, the 400 filling three-quarters of the wooden folding seats, feet scuffling the worn floor as they waited impatiently, docilely obeying the orders of Malcolm's guards as they were directed to their seats.
	www.criticalreading.com /malcolm.htm (1738 words)

	washingtonpost.com: History Center In N.Y. to Honor Malcolm X
		Leading the way are Malcolm X's daughters, who want to convince people he was a champion of human rights and are converting the Audubon Ballroom in upper Manhattan -- the scene of his assassination on Feb. 21, 1965 -- into a history center that will catalogue his life and work.
		On Monday, the Audubon will be the site of a commemorative event on the 40th anniversary of Malcolm X's death.
		The official opening of the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center at the Audubon is slated for May 19, on what would have been his 80th birthday.
	www.washingtonpost.com /ac2/wp-dyn/A40340-2005Feb20?language=printer (318 words)

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		Efforts to preserve Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom, the site of his death at the hands of armed gunmen on Feb. 21, 1965, and to establish a Malcolm X memorial there are no exception.
		After Malcolm X was assassinated, the ballroom was forced to close and the city took possession of the building.
		In 1997, the marble-columned entryway to the ballroom was refinished and a mural depicting her husband’s life was installed upstairs.
	jscms.jrn.columbia.edu /cns/2005-02-15/russell-malcolmx/fullText (871 words)

	Columbia Opens First Audubon Biotech Building: Pataki Helps Dedicate Site for Businesses
		Photograph: The Audubon Business and Technology Center rises six stories behind the restored facade of the Audubon Ballroom on Washington Heights.
		"Audubon is important because it will provide a vehicle for translating the discoveries of new medical science into innovative new treatments for a wide range of illnesses," says Herbert Pardes, vice president for health sciences and dean of the Faculty of Medicine at Columbia.
		It sits behind the restored facade of the Audubon Ballroom and adjacent to the reconstructed portion of the ballroom where Malcolm X was killed in 1965.
	www.columbia.edu /cu/record/archives/vol21/vol21_iss7/record2107.13.html (1005 words)

	Renovated Audubon Ballroom Honors Legacy of Malcolm X Crisis, The - FindArticles
		When the Audubon Ballroom and Theater opened in 1912 in upper Manhattan, it was an immediate sensation.
		Three of his six daughters - Ilyasah, Malaak and Gamilah Shabazz - returned to the Audubon earlier this year to mark the 40th anniversary of their father's assassination and to announce the opening of the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Educational Center.
		Before her death, Betty Shabazz monitored the ballroom's refurbishing, which was led by prominent Black architect J. Max Bond Jr., and reportedly cost the city $19 million.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_qa4081/is_200507/ai_n15665650 (442 words)

	[P&S Journal:Wi:95] New Spaces for New Purposes (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Audubon Park plans also include renovation of Mitchel Square Park, the triangle of land that divides Broadway and St. Nicholas Avenue north of the Audubon Ballroom.
		Mitch Gipson, executive director of the Audubon Park, recalls early controversy about Columbia's plans for the Audubon Ballroom when Columbia was criticized for encroaching on the community whenever it expanded.
		In this case, however, the restoration of the Audubon facade, a project of the city, is a symbolic gesture.
	cpmcnet.columbia.edu /news/journal/journal-o/archives/jour_v15n1_0028.html (465 words)

	Audubon - Hutchinson encyclopedia article about Audubon
		On the other hand, besides the experiments of Audubon and that one by myself, Mr.
		The Voyage of the Beagle by Darwin, Charles View in context
		yet there are upland geese with webbed feet which rarely or never go near the water; and no one except Audubon has seen the frigate-bird, which has all its four toes webbed, alight on the surface of the sea.
	encyclopedia.farlex.com /Audubon (162 words)

	The Smoking Gun: Diary Saga's Final Entry
		Thirty five years after Malcolm X was gunned down in New York's Audubon Ballroom, the blood-stained diary found in his breast pocket has been quietly returned to his family, The Smoking Gun has learned.
		Joseph Fleming, attorney for the Shabazz estate, told TSG that Malcolm's and Betty's children have scheduled a family meeting in April to discuss what to do with the red leatherette diary, which Fleming is now holding for safekeeping.
		That material was compiled for use at the trial of the three men convicted of the February 1965 homicide.
	www.thesmokinggun.com /archive/xdiary.html (256 words)

	[No title] (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Leading the way are Malcolm X's daughters, who want to convince people he was a champion of human rights and are converting the Audubon Ballroom in upper Manhattan - the scene of his assassination on Feb. 21, 1965 - into a history center that would catalog his life and work.
		The Audubon will today be the site of a commemorative event on the anniversary of Malcolm X's death.
		The ballroom's new center will house a multimedia environment containing documents about Malcolm X's life, including memoirs, notes, speeches and other personal items rescued by his family and now held by the Schomburg Center for Research in Black Culture.
	www.sltrib.com /portlet/article/html/fragments/print_article.jsp?article=2579430 (455 words)

	Jailed in Malcolm X Killing, Man Is Given Mosque Post
		The assassination of Malcolm X at the Audubon Ballroom on 165th Street in Washington Heights on Feb. 21, 1965, has long been the subject of fiery debate and conspiracy theories involving the Nation of Islam, the police, the Federal Bureau of Investigation and Farrakhan himself.
		It included accounts of planning and logistics, of the conspirators' advance trips to the Audubon Ballroom and the exact positioning of the gunmen on the day of the shooting.
		William M. Kunstler, the lawyer who often represented radical causes, obtained FBI files quoting informers in the ballroom as saying at least one assassin was a member of a Newark mosque.
	darkwing.uoregon.edu /~jbloom/race/blacks/xkiller.htm (900 words)

	White Reporters Out! (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		In Harlem on the Sunday that Malcolm X was killed, two reporters were right up front in the Audubon Ballroom, so close to the podium that when the shooting started, they had to dive to the floor for cover.
		But how it happened that Stan Scott and Gene Simpson got into the ballroom at all that afternoon played a large part in ushering in a whole new era for reporters who were fl.
		Haley said, on the day of his assassination Malcolm X specifically ordered that no press be allowed inside the Audubon Ballroom.
	www.maynardije.org /news/features/caldwell/Chapter14 (799 words)

	Black News
		He was one of the most charismatic figures in the civil rights movement and also one of its most feared, a former convict who abandoned his "slavemaster name," energized the Nation of Islam and met a violent end at 39.
		Leading the way are Malcolm X's daughters, who want to convince people he was a champion of human rights and are converting the Audubon Ballroom in upper Manhattan -- the scene of his assassination on February 21, 1965 -- into a history center that would catalogue his life and work.
		On Monday, the Audubon will be the site of a commemorative event on the anniversary of Malcolm X's death.
	www.blacknewsweekly.com /news60.html (763 words)

	Jan Hird Pokorny Associates \| Projects (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		The Audubon, its neoclassical ornamentation strikingly rendered in glazed polychrome terra-cotta, served for decades as one of Harlem’s cultural and social centers.
		The building gained notoriety as the site of the assassination of Malcolm X. The Audubon deteriorated during the 1970’s and 80’s and the building was slated for demolition and redevelopment after becoming the property of New York City.
		A medical research facility and Malcolm X memorial now occupies the site of the Audubon Ballroom.
	www.jhpokorny.com /audubon_ballroom.php?origin=/d_servicespreservation/d010_restoration/index.php&category=Restoration (204 words)

	Definition of Audubon Ballroom
		The Audubon Ballroom is most notoriously known for being the location where Malcom X was assassinated in 1965.
		It was a ballroom adjacent to a theatre located at Broadway and 166th St. in the Washington Heights neighborhood of New York City, a diverse neighborhood north of Harlem, on the island of Manhattan.
		It was recently (as of 2004) demolished against the wishes of many in the community, to make way for expanding research centers belonging to Columbia-Presbyterian Medical Center.
	www.wordiq.com /definition/Audubon_Ballroom (187 words)

	North Jersey Media Group providing local news, sports & classifieds for Northern New Jersey!
		A pivotal event in African-American history, the assassination of the fl Muslim leader Malcolm X 40 years ago was commemorated earlier this week in the place where he made his last appearance, the Audubon Ballroom in upper Manhattan.
		It was an eerie moment as I sat in the Audubon Ballroom last Monday and estimated that my chair was within feet of where Malcolm dropped 40 years earlier.
		This week was the first-ever memorial for Malcolm held in the Audubon Ballroom.
	www.northjersey.com /page.php?qstr=eXJpcnk3ZjczN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk2OTEmZmdiZWw3Zjd2cWVlRUV5eTY2NTgxMzYmeXJpcnk3ZjcxN2Y3dnFlZUVFeXk5 (712 words)

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		Malcolm X (nee Malcolm Little) was born on May 19, 1925 in Omaha, Nebraska and was shot to death in Harlem's Audubon Ballroom in New York City on February 21, 1965.
		He told reporters when he returned, "The true Islam has shown me that a blanket indictment of all white people is as wrong as when whites make blanket indictments against fls." Now completely out of the Nation of Islam, he formed his own religious movement, with a greater emphasis on tolerance of all races.
		It was during this last transformation that Malcolm was assassinated in the Audubon Ballroom, allegedly by members of the Nation of Islam.
	www.hometoharlem.com /harlem/hthcult.nsf/4475d09ab4ad8495852565cf001d3b50/57cc8e180b2105ba852565cf001dbc92?OpenDocument (803 words)

	New York Daily News - City News - Malcolm X's daughters visit shrine to father (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		Ilyasah, Gamilah and Malaak Shabazz joined about 400 people at the Audubon Ballroom in Washington Heights to commemorate the 40th anniversary of the civil rights leader's death and dedicate the building to his memory.
		The Audubon Ballroom, at Broadway and 165th St., will open in May as the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center.
		Benjamin Karim, 72, of Richmond, Va., had not returned to the Audubon Ballroom since he introduced Malcolm X the night he was killed.
	www.nydailynews.com /news/local/story/283167p-242669c.html (377 words)

	The New York Times > New York Region > Remembering Malcolm X in the Place Where He Fell (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-10-10)
		She looked at the area that had held a stage where his body lay riddled with bullets and pointed to the spot where she, almost 3 years old, was sitting in a banquette with two of her sisters and her mother, Betty Shabazz, pregnant with twins.
		Shabazz said this is the first memorial for her father in the ballroom since his death.
		The Audubon Ballroom, at Broadway and 165th Street, has been renovated and is preparing to open as the Malcolm X and Dr. Betty Shabazz Memorial and Education Center.
	www.nytimes.com /2005/02/21/nyregion/21malcom.html?ex=1266728400&en=731fb19dc616166a&ei=5088&partner=rssnyt (850 words)

	Socialist Viewpoint
		I witnessed Malcolm X’s assassination at the Audubon Ballroom, on Feb. 21, 1965.
		I was told by Malcolm’s guards when I got outside the Audubon Ballroom that two people were caught by the crowd at the same time and that one was taken to the hospital and the other taken into custody.
		He stated that the five assassins cased one of Malcolm's meetings at the Audubon Ballroom in the winter of 1964-65 and concluded that they would have a good chance to escape.
	www.socialistviewpoint.org /may_01/may_01_11.html (4146 words)

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