Malcolm X sits down with broadcaster Richard D. Heffner in 1963 for a televised interview that puts him face to face with a mainstream host at the height of the civil rights movement. Heffner presses him on his views of integration, white America, and the Nation of Islam, and Malcolm X answers without softening his positions, laying out his case against nonviolent integration and his argument for Black self-determination. Other civil rights figures join the discussion, giving the program more than one perspective on where the movement should be heading. The format is plain: two or more people talking on camera, no reenactments, no narration, just the exchange itself. As a piece of television history it captures Malcolm X before an audience unlike the ones at his own rallies, arguing his positions directly to a skeptical interviewer rather than a sympathetic crowd. The recording works as a primary document of how his ideas sounded, unfiltered, in the year before his break with the Nation of Islam.