It was his responsibility, Raymond Wood wrote, to secure the arrest of Malcolm X's security team; Days before he was shot in Manhattan, the latter's family said.

The letter says the New York Police Department and the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) concealed details of the February 21, 1965 assassination in Harlem's Audubon Hall, Upper Manhattan, according to the Wood family and her attorney.

Wood says he's been tasked with making sure Malcolm X is; He will not have security systems in the building, as he was scheduled to speak in public.