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The Hidden Files on Martin Luther King Jr.: What the New Release Reveals

Martin Luther King Jr.

The U.S. government has made public one of the largest document releases in recent history: 243,000 pages related to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.’s life, death, and the investigation that followed his assassination on April 4, 1968. These documents, declassified under a Trump-era executive order, expose the intense surveillance, political maneuvers, and unresolved questions that …

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Trump Releases Thousands of Martin Luther King Jr. Files: What’s Inside and Why It Matters

Martin Luther King Jr. Files: What’s Inside and Why It Matters

President Donald Trump has authorized the release of a massive collection of federal documents related to the assassination of the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. The records—spanning hundreds of thousands of pages—have been made public through the National Archives, marking one of the most significant declassifications of civil rights–era documents in American history. What …

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