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New Documents Shed Light on FBI‘s Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Examination
The Office of the director of National Intelligence (ODNI) has released a trove of documents pertaining to the Federal Bureau of Investigation’s (FBI) investigation into the assassination of civil rights leader martin luther King Jr. These newly declassified files offer details on potential leads, internal FBI memos tracking the case’s progress, and information from James earl Ray’s former cellmate, who claimed to have discussed an alleged assassination plot with Ray.
The release comes as King’s family has consistently called for transparency and historical accountability. in a statement, King’s children, Martin Luther King III and Dr. Bernice A. King,emphasized that the files must be viewed “within their full historical context.” They reiterated their long-held belief that their father was “relentlessly targeted by an invasive, predatory, and deeply disturbing disinformation and surveillance campaign orchestrated by J. Edgar Hoover through the Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI).” The family also expressed their objection to any attempts to “attack our father’s legacy or attempts to weaponize it to spread falsehoods.”
The King family has historically disputed James Earl Ray’s conviction, asserting he was framed. They stated that upon reviewing the newly released files, they will assess whether they provide “additional insights beyond the findings our family has already accepted.”
Attorney General Pam Bondi, in a statement announcing the release, remarked, “The American people deserve answers decades after the horrific assassination of one of our nation’s great leaders.”
This governance’s decision to publish these documents follows a pattern of releasing historical records. In March, the Trump administration also made public thousands of records related to the assassination of President John F.Kennedy. The current release also occurs amidst growing pressure from President Trump’s base for the administration to release additional information concerning financier Jeffrey Epstein.
A 1962 file photo accompanying the article shows Ambassador Adlai Stevenson, the U.S. delegate to the United Nations, shaking hands with Martin Luther King Jr., president of the southern Christian Leadership Conference, at the White House. President John F.Kennedy is visible at the right of the photo. This meeting took place during President Kennedy’s discussions with members of the American Negro Leadership Conference on Africa. Historians generally acknowledge that President Kennedy’s phone call to Coretta Scott King, expressing concern over her husband’s October 1960 arrest, and Robert Kennedy’s behind-the-scenes efforts to secure King’s release, played a role in Kennedy’s victory in the subsequent presidential election. However, according to a previously unreleased portion of an interview with King conducted days after Kennedy’s election, King, while appreciative, did not solely attribute his release from jail to the Kennedys.
