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Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition
Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition
The Rev. Ralph Abernathy, right, and Bishop Julian Smith, left, flank Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., during a civil rights march in Memphis, Tenn., March 28, 1968. (AP Photo/Jack Thornell, File)
WASHINGTON (AP) — The release involves more than 240,000 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.