Trump administration releases Martin Luther King files
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President Donald Trump's administration released 6,300 documents on Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, uncovering witness accounts, James Earl Ray's fake identities and foreign propaganda.
Historians assessing the trove of newly released documents are cautioning people against the idea that they contain any groundbreaking information.
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The Trump administration has released more than 200,000 pages of records from the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the civil rights leader’s family. It’s unclear if the records will shed any new light on King’s assassination in 1968.
MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal records related to the investigation into the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have been released, following the disclosure in March of tens of thousands of documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.
For children ages 5 and up, this picture book biography was awarded a Caldecott Honor and is an accessible introduction to King. “My Life With Martin Luther King Jr.” (1994) by Coretta Scott King.
This image provided by Fellowship of Reconciliation shows the cover of "Martin Luther King and the Montgomery Story," a 16-page comic book published by the Fellowship of Reconciliation, a ...
The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. speaks about his opposition to the war in Vietnam at Riverside Church on April 4, 1967, in New York. RNS file photo by John C. Goodwin
In January 1967, the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. packed several suitcases and secluded himself on the coast of Jamaica, far from the telephone, far from the crises roiling America.