US EditionTrump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition
UNITED STATES, JUL 22 – The Trump administration released 243,496 pages of FBI and CIA records on MLK's assassination, fulfilling a January executive order amid ongoing conspiracy claims by King's family.
- Gabbard announced that over 230,000 pages of MLK files, sealed since 1977, were released early after the Justice Department's request.
- On April 4, King family members supported the release after Trump signed an executive order to declassify MLK assassination records, fulfilling campaign promises.
- Gabbard revealed FBI records detail surveillance tactics, including wiretaps, hotel bugging, and an anonymous letter urging King to commit suicide.
- Reverend Al Sharpton called the release a `desperate attempt to divert attention`, while the King Center described it as an `ill-timed distraction`.
- The archive represents a rare unvarnished look at the security state, according to The Wall Street Journal.
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National Archives Releases Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Records
Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. pictured during the Civil Rights March in Washington, D.C., 1963. Credit: U.S. National Archives and Records Administration The National Archives has released a new collection of federal records related to the 1968 assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., following a directive issued under President Donald Trump to declassify files tied to several major American political killings. The disclosure inclu…
WASHINGTON.- President Donald Trump's government published on Monday more than 240,000 pages of documents on Martin Luther King Jr., despite the opposition of his family and the civil rights organization he led until his assassination in 1968.The disclosure includes the surveillance records of the Reverend and Nobel Peace Prize laureate, drawn up by the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI), which had remained under judicial seal since 1977, whe…
MLK assassination files released: What to know
(The Hill) -- The Trump administration on Monday released a trove of previously classified documents related to the 1968 assassination of civil rights icon Martin Luther King Jr. (MLK) in Memphis, Tenn. James Earl Ray, who died in prison in 1998, admitted to the murder after he was captured in London, but conspiracy theories have swirled about the motivation behind the attack and who may have been involved beyond Ray, including the federal gover…
The U.S. president has released documents on the murder of the civil rights defender. The pastor's children see this gesture as an attempt to divert attention from the polemics that embarrass the trompists.
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