Federal government on Monday Released thousands of records In 1968 Martin Luther King Jr. Killing. – A step that was ordered earlier this year by President Trump.
The office of the Director of National Intelligence said that the documents, which are more than 230,000 pages, were never digitized and were collecting dust in the facilities in the federal government for decades, till date. “
The records include the FBI’s “potential Leeds discussion, internal FBI Memo, which details the progress of the case, and documents related to James Earl Ray’s former Calamet, who said Ray discussed with an alleged murder conspiracy,” according to Odney. The agency says that the release also includes CIA records on Ray’s discovery, which was eventually captured and before it ran away from America and Convicted for killing the king,
The director of the National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard said in a statement, “American people have waited for about sixty years to see the full scope of the federal government in the murder of Dr. King.”
Odney’s release “The first time these records are published online in a collection with minimum reduction,” although it was said that some records were already made public through the freedom of information Act of Information Act.
Odney said the king’s relatives were given an opportunity to review the files two weeks ago. “
Before release, Some relatives of the king Pushed back on the plan: “For us, our father’s murder is a deep personal family loss that we have tolerated in the last 56 years. We hope that the opportunity will be provided to review the files as a family before its public release.”
King’s two living children, Bernis King and Martin Luther King III said in a statement on Monday that he understood that the record is “long -interest a matter of interest,” but urged people to join the files “with” sympathy, restraint and respect for our family’s constant grief “.
Statement – Raj Center released for non -violent social change by Raja Center – pointed to years of FBI Supervision In the 1960s, the king’s, who Justice department report Later concluded “very probably” was illegal.
Family members said, “When we support transparency and historical accountability, we object to any attack on our father’s legacy or try to make it weapons to spread lies,” the family members said. “Those who promote the FBI monitoring fruits will inadvertently align themselves with an ongoing campaign to degrade our father and civil rights movement.”
Barnis King addressed the release of files in a “Vanity Fair” story on Monday, writing, “I wonder that I have to face something once again that was very misleading and disturbing as a five -year -old child to me. Later Monday, that X written on x“Now, file Epstein.”
Raja’s niece, Alvada King said in Odney’s statement that he supported the release, “a historical step towards the truth that the American people deserves.”
Short after returning office, Mr. Trump Order to the government 1968 Raja and Sen Robert F. President John F with Kennedy’s killings. The release and release of the federal record on Kennedy’s 1963 murder. There were records on jfk Released in MarchAnd the government Issued many Parts Documents on RFK starting in April.
All three murders have attracted decades of public curiosity, including the principles about whether people were accused and were convicted of killing the three people or also responsible for the murders.
Ray Convicted for killing the king A year after the murder, he was sentenced to 99 years in jail, and later he filled his guilty petition and spent years Unsuccessful seeking a new testHe died in 1998.
Raja’s family members have said that Ray was not a shooter. His statement pointed to 1999 on Monday Wrong death suit In the Tennessi Civil Court, in which a jury concluded a person named Lloyd Zavers and other co-speculators, “including government agencies”, was associated with the king’s murder.
Other official findings have diversity. Justice department reviews murder 1977 And 2000Who said that Ray was the killers and did not act as part of a conspiracy. In the 1970s, the House Select Committee on the murders found that Raja was Probably murdered as part of a conspiracy To include ray, but that is Government was not included,
