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Trump Administration Publishes Over 230,000 Pages of MLK Assassination Records

Digitized FBI, CIA and Justice Department files detail case leads, memos and foreign intelligence reports, with King’s family citing privacy and historical context concerns.

FILE - Martin Luther King Jr., head of the Southern Christian Leadership Conference, speaks to thousands during his "I Have a Dream" speech at the Lincoln Memorial during the March on Washington for Jobs and Freedom, Aug. 28, 1963, in Washington. (AP Photo/File)
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FILE - Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr. walks across the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, April 3, 1968. (AP Photo/Charles Kelly, File)

Overview

  • President Trump’s Executive Order 14176 accelerated the declassification of files on the 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., releasing documents that had been sealed since 1977.
  • Office of the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced the records are now available in a centralized digital archive at archives.gov/mlk.
  • The trove includes FBI investigative materials such as potential leads, internal progress memos, audio transcripts and previously unreleased CIA and Canadian intelligence reports.
  • King’s children and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference urged that the unredacted files be studied with empathy, restraint and respect for the family’s continuing grief.
  • Reactions split along political lines: MLK’s niece Alveda King praised the move as transparency, while Rev. Al Sharpton and other critics called it a political diversion.