13 December, 2025, 2:55 pm Central - 26°C Rain

Trump administration releases files on Martin Luther King Jr

Trump administration releases files on Martin Luther King Jr

By Rashika Kumar
22/07/2025
[Image: bbc]

US President Donald Trump's administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader.

A court-imposed order had kept the FBI documents, totalling 230,000 pages, blocked from public view since 1977.

Many members of King's family had opposed the release.

A statement from his two living children condemned any attempts to misuse these documents in ways intended to undermine their father's legacy.

King, a Baptist minister, was shot in Memphis on 4 April 1968, at age 39.

James Earl Ray, a career criminal, pleaded guilty to the killing, but later renounced his plea.

[Source: BBC]

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