The Trump administration publishes files related to the assassination of Martin Luther King

The US Department of Justice has released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King, including records of the Federal Bureau of Investigation, which monitored the Nobel Peace Prize Civil Prize and his movement defending civil rights.

The files were published on the National Archive website, which stated that it would publish more.

King died with a deadly bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, at a time when he expanded his areas of interest to include economic issues and calls for peace, as well as the peaceful campaign for equality of rights of African Americans.

His death was shaken by the United States, in a year, also witnessed ethnic riots, anti -Vietnam demonstrations, and the assassination of presidential candidate Robert Kennedy.

Earlier this year, the administration of US President Donald Trump has published thousands of pages of digital documents related to the assassination of Robert Kennedy and former President John Kennedy, who was killed in 1963.

During his election campaign, Trump pledged more transparency about the assassination of Kennedy, and when he took office, he ordered his assistants to make a plan to release records related to the assassination of Robert Kennedy and King.

The Federal Bureau of Investigation retained files for King in the 1950s and 1960s, and even listened to its calls, due to what the office claimed at the time about suspicious links to communism during the Cold War between the United States and the Soviet Union, and the office approved in the past few years that this is an example of the “violations and transgressions” committed in its history.

In turn, the family of the civil rights leader asked those who deal with the files to “do this with sympathy, self -control and respect for the sorrows of the continuous family”, and also condemned “any attempts to offend the use of these documents.”

She said in a statement: “Now, more than ever, we have to honor his sacrifice by adhering to the realization of his dream … a community rooted in sympathy, unity and equality.”

The family, which includes two King’s sons, is still alive, Martin III (67 years old) and Bernis (62 years): “During our father’s life was an uncompromising target for a campaign of misleading, hostile, predatory and very disturbing control, an annexed by J. Edgar Hoover through the Federal Bureau of Investigation, ”referring to the office manager at the time.

James Earl Ray, a preacher of apartheid, admitted the killing of King, but later retracted his confession and died in prison in 1998.

The King’s family reported that it had filed a civil lawsuit on charges of wrongful killing in Tennessee in 1999, to unanimously dispose of the jury that King “was a victim of a conspiracy involved in Lloyd Jawalers and conspirators, whose names, including government agencies, were not disclosed, as part of a broader plan.”

The ruling also affirmed that “a person other than James Earl Ray was the one who shot, and that Ray was caught to take responsibility, and our family believes that this ruling is an affirmation of our firm beliefs.”

Jojors, a former police officer in Memphis, told the “Prime Time Life” program on ABC in 1993 that he had participated in a conspiracy to kill King, and described a report of the Ministry of Justice in 2023 his allegations that it was doubtful.

. King Assassin, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968.