In 1963, Malcolm’s faith is crushed when discovering that his leader and good friend had violated many of his own teachings. Elijah Muhammad, was secretly having relations with as many as six women within NOI, some even resulting in children. Malcolm refused Muhammad’s request to help cover up the affairs and subsequent children (“Biography”). Malcolm began to feel guilty about the masses he had led to join the NOI, now viewing the organization as fraudulent and built on lies (Epps). Within the same year Malcolm brought additional bad publicity to the Nation with his comment about Pres. John F. Kennedy’s assassination
