Blood Brothers (50 page)

22
.
LCJ
, June 19, 1963

23
.
LDTMP
, June 20, 1963;
NYJA
, June 19, 1963.

24
.
NYT
, June 20, 1963;
LCJ
, June 20, 1963.

25
. Gordon Davidson to W. S. Cutchins, July 23, 1963, Box MSSA B613a, Folder 1657, GBB; Bill Faversham to Louisville Sponsoring Group, April 26, 1963, Box MSSA B613a, Folder 1660, GBB.

26
. Davidson to Cutchins, July 23, 1963, GBB;
LCJ
, April 9, 1963.

27
. Tom Wolfe, “The Marvelous Mouth,”
Esquire
, October 1963, 192.

28
. Alex Haley, “The Implications of Cassius X,” Box Two, Folder 1, AHP.

29
. Wolfe, “The Marvelous Mouth,” 192.

30
.
LCJ
, June 26, 1963.

31
.
CST
, July 3, 1963;
BAA
, July 13, 1963;
PC
, July 3, 1963.

32
.
LCJ
, July 5, 1963.

33
. Marable,
Malcolm X
, 252–253.

34
. For the exchange between Malcolm and Robert Lipsyte, see
NYT
, July 23, 1963; Lipsyte,
SportsWorld
, 85–86; Lipsyte,
An Accidental Sportswriter
, 65–66; Robert Lipsyte interview with author.

35
. Wolfe, “The Marvelous Mouth,” 196.

36
. For the Las Vegas encounter between Liston and Clay, see
NYT
, July 19, 1963; Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 58–59; Jerry Izenberg interview with author.

37
.
NYT
, July 25, 1963; Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 58–59.

38
. Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 58–59.

39
. Gordon Davidson to W. S. Cutchins, July 23, 1963, Box MSSA B613a, Folder 1657, GBB;
LCJ
July 23, 1963; “The Man, the Rabbit and the Boy,”
Time
, August 2, 1963, 52.

40
.
LAT
, July 24, 1963;
NYT
, July 24, 1963; Robert H. Boyle, “This Is What Clay Says He Wants,”
SI
, August 5, 1963, 22.

41
.
NYT
, July 23, 1963, and July 25, 1963.

42
. Wolfe, “The Marvelous Mouth,” 148–149.

43
. “I Am the Greatest,” compact disc, produced by Gary Belkin, Columbia Records (album 1963; reissued 1999); Kindred,
Sound and Fury
, 51–52, 336;
NYP
, November 6, 1963;
NYT
, April 1, 1963.

44
. Marable,
Malcolm X
, 254; FBIMX-9.

45
. Commanding Officer, Bureau of Special Services to Chief Inspector, August 13, 1963, Malcolm X BOSS File.

46
. Roberts and Klibanoff,
The Race Beat
, 346–348.

47
.
LAT
, August 26, 1963; Marable,
Malcolm X
, 242.

48
. Marable,
Malcolm X
, 256; Goldman,
The Death and Life
, 103–105.

49
.
NYAN
, September 7, 1963; Malcolm X, “The Farce on Washington,” Box Five, Folder Five, MXP; FBIMXNY-51.

50
. C. Eric Lincoln, “A Visit with Muhammad: On the Eve of Birmingham,”
Negro Digest
, April 1964, 77, 79–80.

51
. Ibid., 80; FBIMXNY-50.

52
. Cone,
Martin & Malcolm & America
, 113.

53
.
LAS
, August 29, 1963;
OT
, September 28, 1963.

54
.
OT
, September 29, 1963.

55
.
OT
, September 28, 1963.

56
.
Philadelphia Daily News
, September 30, 1963;
PT
, October 1, 1963; Marable,
Malcolm X
, 258.

57
.
PT
, October 1, 1963.

58
.
PT
, October 1, 1963.

59
.
AMX
, 321.

Chapter 9

1
. “The Negro in America,”
Newsweek
, July 29, 1963, 15–16.

2
. Ibid.;
CD
, November 21, 1963; Joseph,
Waiting 'Til the Midnight Hour
, 54–55; Marable,
Malcolm X
, 263–264.

3
.
CD
, November 21, 1963.

4
. Malcolm X, “Message to the Grassroots,” in
Malcolm X Speaks
, ed. Breitman, 8–9.

5
. Ibid.

6
. Ibid.

7
. Goldman,
The Death and Life
, 117–118.

8
.
NYJA
, November 20, 1963;
NYT
, November 22, 1963; Memorandum agreement between Louisville Sponsoring Group and Cassius M. Clay Jr., October 15, 1963, in Professional Boxing Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Antitrust and Monopoly of the Committee on
the Judiciary, United States Senate, 88th Cong., 2d Sess., Part 4: Liston-Clay Fight (1964), 1819.

9
. Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 98.

10
.
AMX
, 332; George Plimpton, “Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X,”
Harper's Magazine
, June 1964, 58.

11
.
AMX
, 332; “Muhammad Ali on the Jack Paar Show,” YouTube,
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w0J4cN-V_l8
.

12
. Clay's poetry recital quoted from
The Jack Paar Tonight Show
footage, November 29, 1963. See “Muhammad Ali on the Jack Paar Show,” YouTube.

13
.
NYJA
, November 20, 1963.

14
. W. S. Cutchins to Louisville Sponsoring Group, September 24, 1963, Box MSSA B613a, Folder 1658, GBB.

15
. Ibid.; Gordon Davidson interview with author.

16
. W. S. Cutchins to Louisville Sponsoring Group, September 24, 1963.

17
. Hauser,
Muhammad Ali,
99.

18
. Ibid.

19
.
NYT
, February 23, 1964.

20
.
NYJA
, November 20, 1963;
NYT
, June 2, 1963.

21
.
NYJA
, November 20, 1963.

22
. FBIEM—JUNE File.

23
.
MS
, October 11, 1963.

24
.
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
, PBS Video, produced and directed by Orlando Blackwell (1997).

25
. Ibid.

26
. ABC Radio recording of Don Gardiner, November 22, 1963, accessed at
http://www.radiotapes.com/JFK/ABC_JFK_03.mp3
;
Malcolm X: Make It Plain
.

27
. Clegg,
An Original Man
, 200.

28
. Branch,
Pillar of Fire
, 184;
NYT
, December 2, 1963.

29
. Branch,
Pillar of Fire
, 184.

30
.
AMX
, 329–330.

31
. FBIEM-8.

32
.
NYT
, December 6, 1963;
NYP
, December 5, 1963;
PC
, December 14, 1963; FBIMXNY-55.

33
. FBIEM-8.

34
. Goldman,
The Death and Life
, 119; Lomax,
When the Word Is Given
, 177 (emphasis ours).

35
.
AMX
, 331.

36
. Clegg,
An Original Man
, 203–204.

37
. Branch,
Pillar of Fire
, 200; FBIMXNY-56.

38
. Branch,
Pillar of Fire
, 200–201.

39
. This exchange between Malcolm and Elijah is drawn from FBIEM-8 and Evanzz,
The Judas Factor
, 168–170.

40
. Marable,
Malcolm X
, 125–126; Goldman,
The Death and Life
, 110;
PC
, April 4, 1964.

41
. Branch,
Pillar of Fire
, 201–202.

42
. Ibid.

43
.
AMX
, 331.

44
. Goldman,
The Death and Life
, 91, 126.

45
.
AMX
, 331.

46
. Evanzz,
The Judas Factor
, 173–175.

47
. Marable,
Malcolm X
, 282.

Chapter 10

1
. Lipsyte,
An Accidental Sportswriter
, 66; Robert Lipsyte interview with author.

2
. Pacheco,
Muhammad Ali
, 5–6; Fleischer,
Training for Boxers
, chapter 19.

3
. Huston Horn, “A Rueful Dream Come True,”
SI
, November 18, 1963, 26–27.

4
. For the bus story, see:
NYT
, November 6, 1963;
LCJ
, November 6, 1963; Horn, “A Rueful Dream Come True,” 26–27; Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 59–60; Remnick,
King of the World
, 142–143; “Playboy Interview: Cassius Clay,”
Playboy
, October 1964, 72–73.

5
.
NYT
, November 6, 1963;
LCJ
, November 6, 1963; Horn, “A Rueful Dream Come True,” 26–27.

6
. Gilbert Rogin and Morton Sharnik, “Can't a Fellow Make a Mistake?,”
SI
, July 17, 1961, 24.

7
.
MH
, February 9, 1964;
NYT
, December 7, 1963.

8
. Gilbert Rogin, “The Many Faces of Mr. Mac,”
SI,
February 17, 1964, 56;
MH
, February 27, 1964.

9
.
MH
, February 9, 1964.

10
. Evanzz,
The Judas Factor
, 176.

11
. Ibid., 176–177.

12
. Ibid.; FBIMXNY-56.

13
. Evanzz,
The Judas Factor
, 177; FBIMX-10.

14
.
AMX
, 331; Abdul Rahman Muhammad (Sam Saxon) interview with author.

15
. Kathy Hersh, “High Cotton: Jazzing It Up at the Hampton House,” in
Miami: Modern Metropolis: Paradise and Paradox in Midcentury Architecture and Planning
, ed. Allen T. Shulman (New York: Princeton Architectural Press: 2009), 335–337.

16
.
AMX
, 332; Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 98.

17
. Malcolm X, Florida Vacation Notebook, Box 1, Folder 4, MXP; FBIMXNY-56.

18
. George Plimpton, “Miami Notebook: Cassius Clay and Malcolm X,”
Harper's Magazine
, June 1964, 58.

19
. Ibid.

20
. Ibid.;
AMX
, 335.

21
.
AMX
, 444.

22
. Ibid., 333.

23
. Marable,
Malcolm X
, 281–282.

24
. Barry Gottehrer, “How Cassius Clay Tricked the World,”
Sport
, June 1964, 84.

25
. Abdul Rahman Muhammad (Sam Saxon) interview with author.

26
. Olsen,
Black Is Best
, 94.

27
. Gottehrer, “How Cassius Clay Tricked the World,” 84.

28
. Marable,
Malcolm X
, 282.

29
. FBIMXNY-56; Evanzz,
The Judas Factor
, 182.

30
. Evanzz,
The Judas Factor
, 181;
MH
, January 23, 1964.

31
.
NYAN
, January 25, 1964.

32
. Ibid.

33
. Ibid.; FBIMXNY-56.

34
. Evanzz,
The Judas Factor
, 172, 179.

35
.
NYHT
, January 23, 1964.

36
.
MH
, January 23, 1964; Robert Lipsyte, “Cassius Clay, Cassius X, Muhammad Ali,”
NYTM
, October 25, 1964, n.p.; Abdul Rahman Muhammad (Sam Saxon) interview with author.

37
.
MH
, January 24, 1964.

38
. Ibid.

39
.
NYT
, January 25, 1964;
MH
, January 23, 1964, January 25, 1964, and January 26, 1964.

40
.
MH
, February 3, 1964.

41
. Ibid.

42
.
LCJ
, February 3, 1964.

43
. Ibid.;
MH
, February 8, 1964.

44
. Olsen,
Black Is
Best, 133–134.

45
.
MH
, February 8, 1964; Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 65.

46
. Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 65.

47
.
NYT
, January 27, 1964.

48
. For the Clay-Liston encounter at the Miami airport, see:
MH
, January 26, 1964, and January 27, 1964;
NYT
, January 27, 1964; “Playboy Interview: Cassius Clay,” 74.

49
. Jerry Izenberg interview with author.

50
. For Liston's training routine, see: Plimpton,
Shadow Box
, 87–91;
MH
, January 29, 1964, January 20, 1964, and February 5, 1964.

51
.
MH
, February 7, 1964.

52
.
NYT
, February 8, 1964;
MH
, February 9, 1964.

53
. Lipsyte,
SportsWorld
, 175–179;
MH
, February 13, 1964.

54
. Lewisohn,
The Complete Beatles Chronicle
, 146–147; Hauser,
Muhammad Ali
, 63.

55
. The Beatles,
The Beatles Anthology
, 123.

56
. For the Clay-Beatles meeting, see:
NYT
, February 19, 1964;
NYP
, February 19, 1964; Lipsyte,
An Accidental Sportswriter
, 62–64; Spitz,
The Beatles
, 483–484.

57
.
NYT
, February 21, 1964.

58
. FBIMX-10;
NYT
, February 26, 1964.

59
. Evanzz,
The Judas Factor
, 186; FBIMX-57.

60
. Bingham and Wallace,
Muhammad Ali's Greatest Fight
, 78.

61
.
Atlanta Daily World
, February 22, 1964.