Overview

• The administration released over 24,000 pages of FBI records on King’s surveillance and assassination investigations that had been sealed since 1977.
• Martin Luther King III and Bernice King urged researchers to review the files with empathy and respect for their historical context.
• Alveda King praised the disclosure as a vital step toward transparency in understanding her uncle’s legacy.
• Initial examinations by historians and enthusiasts found no significant new revelations and flagged many documents as difficult to read due to poor digitization.
• Earlier this year’s declassification of JFK and RFK assassination archives similarly produced no major new insights.