Trump releases Martin Luther King assassination files

Reuters ^ | July 21, 20256:55 PM CDT | Kanishka Singh

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Summary

• Trump signed order in January to release files
• MLK was killed in 1968
• Files include records from FBI, which had sought to discredit King

WASHINGTON, July 21 (Reuters) - The U.S. Justice Department on Monday released more than 240,000 pages of documents related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr., including records from the FBI, which had surveilled the civil rights leader as part of an effort to discredit the Nobel Peace Prize winner and his civil rights movement.

Files were posted on the website of the National Archives, which said more would be released.

King died of an assassin's bullet in Memphis, Tennessee, on April 4, 1968, as he increasingly extended his attention from a nonviolent campaign for equal rights for African Americans to economic issues and calls for peace. His death shook the United States in a year that would also bring race riots, anti-Vietnam war demonstrations and the assassination of presidential candidate Robert F. Kennedy.

Earlier this year, President Donald Trump's administration released thousands of pages of digital documents related to the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and former President John F. Kennedy, who was killed in 1963.

Trump promised on the campaign trail to provide more transparency about Kennedy's death. Upon taking office, he also ordered aides to present a plan for the release of records relating to the assassinations of Robert Kennedy and King.

The FBI kept files on King in the 1950s and 1960s - even wiretapping his phones - because of what the bureau falsely said at the time were his suspected ties to communism during the Cold War between the U.S. and Soviet Union. In recent years, the FBI has acknowledged that as an example of "abuse and overreach" in its history.

The civil rights leader's family asked...

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[JSM_Liberty]

SQUIRREL !!!

[MNJohnnie]

So the Biden DOJ did every single thing they could do to get Trump. Yet in all that, the Epstein silver bullet that would of destroyed Trump was not used?

Are you all really this f’in stupid?

[Kleon]

Now release the Epstein files.

[Nextrush]

In 60 years I hope not...

[Captainpaintball]

Does it show he was a not only a plagiarist, (although Stanley Levinson actually wrote his speeches, SSSSHHHHH!) he was not only a rapist, but a homo on the down low? Does it show that?

[Swirl]

I would believe what the FBI said about King as much as I believe what they say about Trump.

[dadgum]

FIBs gonna lie. It’s in their DNA.

PS - I respect a freshly excreted steaming pile of dog sh*t infinitely more than I respect or trust the FBI.

[sten]

only thing to stop people from demanding the pedo names would be landing a UFO on the Whitehouse front lawn.

and it’d only stop the demand for 2 or 3 days.

[maddog55]

Exactly...

[Ditto]

So the Biden DOJ did every single thing they could do to get Trump. Yet in all that, the Epstein silver bullet that would of destroyed Trump was not used? Are you all really this f’in stupid?

Ya, they are. And there is also the question I have asked and never got an answer. If Epstein had this list of all these powerful people, why was he sitting in a stinking jail cell in New York City? Why didn’t he use his list to get out of jail, and get the charges dropped?