Trump officials release FBI records on MLK Jr despite his family’s opposition

<p>About 200,000 pages of surveillance records released despite objection from slain civil rights leader’s family</p><p>The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr, <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/feb/16/mlk-jr-trump-assassination-records-release">despite opposition</a> from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.</p><p>The release involves an estimated 200,000 pages of records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.</p> <a href="https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/jul/21/trump-administration-release-mlk-fbi-records">Continue reading...</a>