And the lone person to confess to killing Malcolm X has been granted parole forty-five years after the murder. Thomas Hagan has been jailed since February 21st, 1965, when he and several others shot Malcolm X as he spoke before a packed audience in Harlem’s Audubon Ballroom. Hagan has been on work release for over twenty years, but has still been required to spend two days a week in a Manhattan prison.