Trump officials release FBI records on MLK Jr despite his family’s opposition
by Guardian staff and agencies from US news | The Guardian on (#6YSSZ)
About 200,000 pages of surveillance records released despite objection from slain civil rights leader's family
The Trump administration has released records of the FBI's surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr, despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate's family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
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.
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