Malcolm X | Don Hogan Charles 1964 Malcom X is holding the gun in his right hand, and pulling back the blinds on his window with his left hand. He was looking outside his Queens, New York, home to keep watch, to make sure mobs or assassins were not approaching. This image captures the danger he was in as an outspoken black man in America. A little over a year after this picture was taken, he was assassinated