Yuri Kochiyama, at Malcolm X's Side When He Died, Is Dead at 93
June 2, 2014 10:04 AM EDT Yuri Kochiyama a long-time political activist who famously appeared in a photo in LIFE, cradling Malcolm Xs head at Harlems Audubon Ballroom the night he was assassinated in February 1965 died at her home in Berkeley, Calif., on Sunday. She was 93 years old.