CBS News looks at Malcolm X| focusing on his public life from 1959 to his assassination in 1965| suggesting that his death was a great loss to the nation. The filmintercuts archival footage of Malcolm and interviews with family| friends| colleagues| scholars| and writers. CBS documents Malcolm's move from being ElijahMuhammad's deputy in the Nation of Islam to his embrace of Islam: his new links with the civil rights movement posed a real threat to the powers that be. CBS detailshis death after secret FBI acts to increase the rift between Muhammad and Malcolm. Maya Angelou| Dick Gregory| and Andrew Young offer trenchant comments. "He was ourmanhood|" eulogized Ossie Davis.