his own security force turned against him.
Of Wilson’s alleged covert Communism, though, there is not a jot of proof.
Paul Foot,
Robin Ramsay and Steven Dorril,
Peter Wright,
Wingdings
In the aftermath of 9/11 there resurfaced a popular early-1990s conspiracy that within Microsoft’s Wingdings font were secreted hidden messages. One such message was to be found if “NYC” [New York City] was typed in Wingdings. Up came: 
Some conspiracists read the symbols as Microsoft’s approval for the killing of New York’s Jews, and eventually the brouhaha reached the
Then came 9/11, and someone on the internet decided Microsoft’s Wingdings had forecast—even signalled—the terror attack on the World Trade Center. As one email posted on AboveTopSecret.com put it:
Q33NY in Wingdings is: 
An airplane attacks two buildings and kills the Jews…
The conspiracy is undone by significant faults. Most notably, Q33NY was not the number of any of the aircraft involved in 9/11. Further, the 3–3 symbols are not “buildings” but lined documents. If you want a secret message from Wingdings, try this: 
Microsoft’s Wingdings font is designed to convey secret anti-Semitic messages: ALERT LEVEL 1
DOCUMENT:
“Anti-Jewish Code Lurks in Popular Software”,
One of the world’s bestselling computer programs contains a secret anti-Semitic message apparently urging death to Jews in New York City.
A computer consultant discovered the diabolic message while installing Microsoft’s new Windows 3.1 software for a client yesterday.
The consultant was testing a mailing-address use of the program when he noticed the letters “NYC” had been replaced by a hateful message—a skull and crossbones, the Star of David and an approving thumbs-up symbol.
Microsoft strongly denies any hidden message. Others disagree.
“There’s no way it could be a random coincidence,” said Brian Young, a friend of the consultant, who does not wish to be named.
“It’s pretty scary. I was pretty shocked by the whole thing.”
Computer owners who use Microsoft Excel, Microsoft Word or any other Microsoft program containing a print font named “Wingdings” can duplicate the anti-Semitic message by typing the letters “NYC” on their screen.
Microsoft said “Wingdings” was designed by Bigelow and Holmes, an outside vendor, and denied that Microsoft intentionally designed the secret message.
Prof. Charles Bigelow confirmed that his company provided the symbols, but insisted that Microsoft made the final “mapping” decisions assigning his symbols to specific keys on the keyboard.
But a senior Microsoft spokesman said the charge that the fonts contain a hidden message is “outrageous”.
“It’s like saying that if you randomly type out characters on a keyboard to spell ‘Satan’, you can do that, but it’s incredible to say that there’s anti-Semitism in Microsoft or one of its vendors,” said Charles Hemingway.
But Young, who discussed the matter with other computer consultants, isn’t so sure it’s just a coincidence.
The “Wingdings” font contains no letters—just 255 symbols.
Young calculated the odds of three letters of the alphabet being combined with 255 symbols, and said he found that the odds of obtaining the message were less than one in a trillion.
“It’s mind-blowing,” said Young. “Somebody’s responsible for this. This is very offensive.”
“I found it hard to believe some of the stories about the resurgence of Nazi sympathizers—but this puts things back into perspective.”
Malcolm X
The Audubon Ballroom in Harlem, 3.05 p.m., 21 February 1965: someone in the crowd of 400 shouts out, “Get your hand outta my pocket! Don’t be messin’ with my pockets!” A smoke bomb goes off at the back of the auditorium. Chaos ensues. Out of the agitated mass of people a black man moves to the stage with a sawn-off shotgun and fires point blank at the speaker. Behind him two other men charge forward with handguns, and they likewise fire at the figure on the stage.
Hit by what the autopsy report later called “multiple wounds in the chest, heart and aorta”, the speaker died almost instantaneously, despite the efforts of his bodyguard Gene Roberts to resuscitate him.
The speaker was Malcolm X, the leading black politician of post-war America aside from the also- assassinated Martin Luther King.
As Malcolm X lay with his life racing away, his assassins tried to escape, but one of the shooters, Talmadge Hayer, was caught by the crowd. Almost a year later Hayer and two other men, Norman “3x” Butler and Thomas “15x” Johnson, were convicted of the first-degree murder of Malcolm X. The case was closed, tied up with ribbon and put away in the vault. Hayer had admitted the crime and the motive was plain: internecine war between black radicals. Hayer, Butler and Johnson belonged to the Nation of Islam, from which Malcolm X had been expelled after accusing founder Elijah Muhammad of the distinctly non-Koranic behaviour of fathering illegitimate children. Malcolm X had afterwards founded his own Organization of Afro-American Unity (OAAU). A running war between
