Trump administration issues files on the slain civil rights leader

The administration of US President Donald Trump has released a record on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including FBI monitoring files on the leader of civil rights.

The order imposed by a court had placed a total of 230,000 pages of 230,000 pages blocked by public view since 1977.

Many members of the king’s family opposed the release. A statement by his two living children “condemned any attempt to misuse these documents with the intention of reducing our father’s legacy”.

King, a baptist minister, was shot dead at the age of 39 at Memphis on 4 April 1968. A career criminal, James Earl Ray convicted the murder, but later abandoned his petition.

Two living children of King Junior, Martin III and Bernis, who were informed about the release prematurely, said in a statement on Monday: “We ask those who are engaged with the release of these files, who do so with respect for sympathy, restraint and our family’s continuous grief.

“The release of these files should be seen in their full historical context.

“During our father’s lifetime, he was targeted by an aggressive, hunter, and depth disturbing disintegration and surveillance campaign, which was orchestrated by J. Edgar Houver through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).”

The statement said that the government’s surveillance deprived the king of “dignity and freedom of private citizens”.

At the campaign mark, Trump promised Americans that he would release files on the killings of Raja and former President John F. Kennedy.

He signed an executive order in January, stating that both murders of the two murders should be disintegrated, with a record in the murder of Robert F. Kennedy.

The office of the Director of National Intelligence (DNI) said in a press release on Monday: “In today’s release, MLK files were never digitized and till date to collect dust in facilities in the federal government, till date.”

DNI stated that documents include “internal FBI Memo” and “never seen CIA Record” behind the hunting for the Kings killer.

The release was coordinated with the FBI, Department of Justice, National Archives and CIA.

“American people are worth replying decades after the horrific murder of one of the great leaders of our country,” said American Attorney General Pamela Bondi.

In the statement of Raja’s family, he cited the decision of a jury in the wrongly death civil trial of 1999, which found that the civil rights leader was not a single racist gunman’s victim, but of a huge conspiracy.

The family said it would assess the newly issued documents for “additional insights” beyond the current known facts of the case.

Trump’s critics said the administration was accused of lack of transparency on the files related to influential sexual criminal Jeffrey Epstein, who had committed a suicide on the death of the 2019 prison.

Leader of Civil Rights Al Sharptton said that the release of King files was “a desperate attempt to distract” from “Epstein files” from “attaching Trump and” publicly provoking “his credibility”.

The king’s family was not upset about all the release.

Referring to the leader of civil rights as a “uncle”, Alvada King said: “I am grateful to President Trump and DNI Gabbard to vow to his transparency.

“While we continue to mourn his death, the disintegration and release of these documents is a historical step towards the truth that is worth the American people.”

Prior to his arrest, the king’s convicts, James Earl Ray, fled the country to Canada, Portugal and Britain, where they raided a bank.

Extradited in Memphis, he entered a convicted petition in 1969 and was sentenced to 99 years in jail.

He later claimed that he was implicated by shady conspirators and tried to resume his guilty petition, but it was repeatedly retained by the courts. Ray died in 70 in 1998.