The US presidential administration Donald Trump has announced more than 230 thousand pages of files of the Federal Bureau of Investigations (FBI) related to the investigation of the murder of Martin Luther King.
According to the director of the US National Intelligence, Tulsey Gabbard, in a statement on his page on the social network X, documents collected by the FBI and have been under a judicial prohibition since 1977 are now available to the public on the National Directorate of Archives and Documentation of the United States.
According to the statement, the published materials include the details of the FBI investigation in the murder of Martin Luther King, assessing potential suspects, as well as official correspondence reflecting the course of the investigation.
Martin Luther King Jr. was one of the most famous and influential leaders of the civil rights in the United States. He was born on January 15, 1929 in Atlanta, Georgia, and became a Baptist pastor and an outstanding fighter for the rights of African Americans.
King advocated the non -violent resistance of racial segregation and social justice. In 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Prize of the World.
He was killed on April 4, 1968 in the city of Memphis, Tennessee, where he was to support the strike of African American sanitary workers. The murder was accused and condemned by James Erla Ray, a criminal with numerous convictions who fled several times from prisons.
– The statement of children Martin Luther King
Children of Martin Luther King, who got acquainted with documents before their publication, made an appeal.
Their statement says that the murder of his father “for decades is causing a keen interest in the public.” At the same time, the King family called on everyone who will study these materials, “do this with empathy, restraint and respect for the continuing pain of the family.”
– Decree on the publication of materials in the case of the murder of Kennedy
January 23 Trump signed a decree on the declassification of documents related to the murder of the 35th US President John F. Kennedy.
The decree provides for the disclosure of all materials regarding not only the murder of John Kennedy, but also his brother Robert Kennedy and Martin Luther King.