REPORTER DIED AFTER LINKING 1 MAN TO MLK, JFK & MALCOLM X ASSASSINATIONS”

Louis E. Lomax, was an African-American journalist and author. He was also the first African-American television journalist.

In 1959, Lomax told his colleague Mike Wallace about the Nation of Islam. Lomax and Wallace produced a five-part documentary about the organization, “The Hate-That Hate Produced,” which aired during the week of July 13, 1959. The program was the first time most white people heard about the Nation, its leader, Elijah Muhammad, and its charismatic spokesman, Malcolm X.



Lomax was investigating a possible connection of Guy Bannister to the assassinations of Martin Luther King, Jr., John F. Kennedy and Malcolm X. Bannister once said: “Civil Rights organizations are an international conspiracy and Civil Rights for Negroes can be defined as treasonous.” 

1970: Shortly after Lomax signed a contract to help with a movie about the possible link between Guy Bannister and the three assassinations, he died in a car accident when the brakes on his car failed near Santa Rosa, New Mexico. According to Washington Post writer Karl Evanzz, Lomax’s death may have been connected to the movie.

At the time of his death, Lomax had a 141-page FBI file. And government officials were allegedly obsessed with his relationship to a white woman.