Trump Releases SHOCKING MLK FBI Files: Family Outraged!

2025-07-22 12:00:39.669

The Trump administration released a trove of FBI surveillance records on Martin Luther King Jr., despite objections from his family and the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC). The more than 240,000 pages of documents, sealed since 1977, include details of the FBI's extensive surveillance of King, including wiretaps and informants, and leads investigated after his assassination. King's children, Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, while acknowledging the public's interest in their father's life and death, expressed concern about the release's timing and urged for empathy and respect. They reiterated their belief that James Earl Ray, convicted of King's assassination, did not act alone. The release was praised by some, including Alveda King, a niece of MLK, as an act of transparency, while others, like Rev. Al Sharpton, viewed it as a political distraction from the controversy surrounding the Jeffrey Epstein case. The King Center criticized the release as ill-timed, given pressing social issues. Scholars and historians will now examine the documents for new insights into King's life and death, while the family continues to pursue the truth behind the assassination.