Martin Luther King Jr.'s family has objected to releasing the FBI surveillance files of the iconic civil rights leader

Mr Trump promised as a candidate to release government files related to President John F Kennedy’s 1963 assassination. When Mr Trump took office in January 2025, he signed an executive order to declassify the JFK records, along with those associated with the assassinations of Robert F Kennedy and King.

The digital document dump includes more than 240,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977 - when the FBI first gathered the records

The release includes more than 230,000 pages of records detailing the FBI’s investigation into King’s assassination.

About 230,000 pages records are unsealed - including FBI surveillance files - despite opposition from some of the King family.

The Trump administration on Monday released a massive trove of documents related to the April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. as part of an effort “to deliver complete transparency” into the civil rights icon’s murder.

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