Digital document dump contains records of over 240,000 pages that were under sealed by a court since 1977, when FBI first collected records and replaced them National Archives and Records Administration,
In a long statement released on Monday, King’s two living children, Martin III, 67, and Bernis, 62, stated that his father’s murder has been “public curiosity to entice public curiosity for decades”. But the pair emphasized the personal nature of the case and urged that the files “be seen in their full historical context.”
Kings had advance access to records and reviewed their own teams. The government continued those efforts even while providing public reach. The Documents lead the FBI obtained after the king’s assassination and the description of the determination of the CIA on the king’s axis for anti-international anti-war and poverty movements in the years before being killed. It was not immediately clear that the documents threw new lights on the life of the king, the movement of civil rights or his murder.
“Dr. King and Mrs. King and Mrs. Koreta Scott King, their sad death is a deep personal grief – a devastating disadvantage for his wife, children, and granddaughter that they never found – an absence has tolerated a family for more than 57 years,” he wrote. “We ask those who are engaged with the release of these files, who do so with respect, restraint and respect for our family’s constant sorrow.”
He also reiterated the long -standing controversy of the family that James Earl Ray, who was convicted of killing the king, was not completely responsible, if at all. Barnis King was 5 years old when his father was killed at the age of 39. Martin III was 10 years old. A statement from the director’s office National Wisdom Tulsi Gabbard The disclosure is called “unprecedented” and said that many records were first digital. He praised President Donald Trump for furthering the issue.
Release is ‘transparency’ for some people, a ‘distraction’ for others, Trump, President John F. Kennedy was promised as a candidate to issue files related to 1963 murder. When Trump took over in January, he Robert F. Along with people associated with Kennedy and MLK’s 1968 killings, an executive order signed to declare JFK records.
The government ignored JFK records in March and revealed some RFK files in April.
The announcement of Gabbard’s office included a statement by Alvada King, niece of Martin Luther King Jr., who is a vocal conservative and has broken the king’s children on various subjects including FBI files. Alvida King said that she was “grateful to President Trump” for her “transparency”.
Separate, Attorney General Palm Bondi had a picture of the Attorney General with Alvada King in the social media account.
In addition to fulfilling Trump’s order, the latest release means another optional title for the President, as he tries to be angry with supporters to deal with his administration’s records, which relates to Jeffrey Epstein’s sex trafficking investigation, which killed himself behind the Salakhas while waiting for the trial in 2019 during Trump’s first presidential post. Trump ordered last Friday Justice Department To release the grand jury testimony, but the entire case file was stopped from ignoring.
Barnis King and Martin Luther King III did not mention Trump in their statement on Monday. But Bernis King later posted a black-end-white picture of his father on his personal Instagram account, which was angry, with the caption “Now, Epstein files.”
And some civil rights workers did not leave the President.
“Trump is not about transparency or justice to release MLK murder files,” said Rev al -Sharpton. “This is a frustrated attempt to distract people from the firstorm that attachs Trump on Epstein files. Maga Base.”
King Center, established by Kings Widow and now under the leadership of Bernis King, Bernis reacted separately from what he said jointly with her brother. The statement of the King Center implicated the release as a distraction – but more than the short -term political dispute.
The Raja Center, adding those challenges to the efforts of MLK, is unfortunate and sick time, given the issues affecting the United States and global society and the innumerable injustice. “” This righteous work must be a collective response to fresh attention to the killing of a great purification of true peace. “
Records means that a new contingent of research materials was initially intended to seal King Records by 2027, until the lawyers of the Department of Justice asked a federal judge to raise the sealing order early. Scholars, history fond and journalists are preparing to study documents for new information about their assassination in Memphis, Tennessi on April 4, 1968.
The Southern Christian leadership conference, which the king co-established as a movement of civil rights in 1957, opposed the release. The group along with the king’s family argued that the FBI illegally surveyed the statistics of the king and other civil rights, which expects them and their movement to discredit.
It has been established for a long time that the then Director of the then-FBI J. Edgar Hoover was intensified interested in intensity. If he was not obsessed with the king and others, he considered a radical. The FBI Records first released how Hoover’s bureau wiretaps the King’s telephone lines, harassing its hotel rooms and used informers to collect information, including evidence of additional cases of the king.
The king’s children said in their statement, “He was constantly targeted by an aggressive, hunter and deep disturbing disintegration and monitoring campaign.
“The intention … was not only to monitor, but also to defame, disintegrate and destroy Dr. King’s reputation and the wider American civilian rights movement,” he continued. “These actions were not only an attack of privacy, but intentionally attacking the truth – the dignity and freedom of private citizens, who fought for justice, were designed to neutralize those who dared to challenge the status quo.”
Kings said that they “support transparency and historical accountability” but “Objection to any attack on our father’s legacy or try to make it weapons to spread lies.”
Congress and President Lindon B. by Civil Rights Movement. The king’s opposition intensified even after Johnson was forced to implement the 1964 Civil Rights Act and the 1965 Voting Rights Act. After those victories, the king attracted his attention to economic justice and international peace. He criticized rape capitalism and Vietnam War. The king said that only political rights were not enough to ensure only one society. Many establishment figures such as Hoover see the king as a communist threat.
The king’s children still do not accept the basic explanation of the murder that the king was murdered as he was supporting the striking sanitation workers in the memphis, which was part of his clear turn towards economic justice.
Ray convicted the king for killing. Ray later abandoned the argument and maintained his innocence until his death in 1998.
Raja family members and others have long been questioned whether Ray has worked alone, or if he was also involved. Koreta Scott King asked to reopen the investigation, and in 1998, the then Attorney General Janet Reno ordered a new look. The Reno’s Department of Justice said that “Nothing was found to disturb the 1969 judicial determination that James Earl Ray killed Dr. King.”
In his latest statement, Bernis King and Martin Luther King III reiterated their claim that Ray was installed. He pointed to a 1999 civilian case brought by the King family, with a Memphis jury concluded that Martin Luther King Jr. was the target of a conspiracy.
“As we review these newly released files,” Kings said, “We will assess if they provide additional insights beyond the conclusions that have already accepted our family.”
