Upper Intermediate - Malcolm X Crime Reading

Difficult lesson for you today! I suggest that you read the news article through once before you try and find the missing words. Do you k now who Malcolm X is?

Thomas Hagan, the only man who admitted his role in the 1965 assassination of iconic black leader Malcolm X, was _A_ Tuesday.

Saying that he has “deep regrets” about his participation in the killing of human rights activist Malcolm X in 1965, a _B_ Thomas Hagan regained his full freedom after _C_ the most of the last 44 years in prison.

Mr. Hagan, 69, has said he was one of three people who shot Malcolm X as he began a speech at the Audubon Ballroom in Harlem. But Mr. Hagan has said the two men _D_ with him were not involved. They maintained their _E_ and were paroled in the 1980s. No one else has ever been charged.

Mr. Hagan said in 1977 that he and several _F_ decided to kill Malcolm X because he was a “hypocrite” who had “gone against the leader of the Nation of Islam,” Elijah Muhammad. Hagan was a member of the Nation of Islam at the time. Malcolm X had earlier _G_ from the Nation and greatly angered its membership by making comments against the leader, Elijah Muhammad.

Task1: Copy + paste or type the words into the correct spaces below:

split - separated
innocence - when someone is not guilty of a crime i.e they did not do the crime.
paroled - when a prisoner is released before their period in prison is finished, with the agreement that they will behave well
accomplices - people who help someone else to commit a crime
repentant - feeling sorry for something that you have done
serving - spending a period of time doing something
convicted - to have been officially found guilty in a court of law of a crime