Michael Knowles to uphold Charlie Kirk’s legacy, continue event at University of Minnesota in tribute

Knowles discussed the event on his appearance on The Charlie Kirk Show with colleagues Ben Shapiro and Matt Walsh on Monday. They joined Andrew Kolvet in paying tribute to their departed friend. Knowles later announced that the event would go on.

"The event is on. What was going to be a conversation between me and Charlie will now be a tribute to Charlie and an open forum for Q&A. The enemies of civilization will not succeed at killing his mission. They will not even succeed at killing his tour," Knowles wrote.

Knowles, appearing on the Charlie Kirk Show earlier this week, said that after the assassination, he remembered that he had planned the event with Kirk at the college. Knowles said that he had "owed [Charlie] a text a few days prior" to the assassination but thought that he would be seeing Kirk in a few weeks when the two were slated to speak at the University of Minnesota.

"He and I were scheduled to speak together at the University of Minneapolis, or as he called it, Mogadishu, in 12 days, 12 days after it happened. And so it happens, and then, you know, you're in a fog, and then you're getting the news, and then later this popped into my head. I said,' Oh my goodness, I was supposed to do an event with Charlie a week and a half from now,' And so your first instinct is, 'Wait, there's no way that that event can go on.' ... Then two seconds later, you say, 'There's no way it can't go on, especially given this man, especially given this movement that he built and everything that he stood for, there's no way that we can cancel that.'"

The event is now slated to take place on Monday September 22 with Knowles. The events had previously been part of Kirk’s “Prove Me Wrong” college tour. There will be bag and security screenings for the event and attendees must show ID and must be over the age of 18 to attend.

Kirk was assassinated at Utah Valley University on September 10 while he was speaking to college students and engaging in debate. Tyler Robinson, the suspect in the assassination, has been charged with aggravated murder and Utah is seeking the death penalty in his case. Left-wing media and social media accounts have attempted to paint Robinson as a right-wing extremist, however, evidence and charging documents in the case have confirmed that he was far to the left politically.