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News Topical, Digital Desk : The Trump administration made public the FBI records related to Martin Luther King Jr. However, his family and some civil rights organizations did not want these records to be made public.
This is a record of about 2,00,000 pages, which were kept confidential on the orders of the court since the year 1977. The FBI had handed over these records to the National Archives Department.
What did Martin Luther King Jr's family say?
Both of King's children, Martin Luther King III and Bernice King, said that information about their father has been a subject of public interest. But they also said that this information is very personal and people should understand it in the full historical context.
Documents related to John F. Kennedy have also been released
Let us tell you that before the presidential election, Donald Trump had claimed that former President John F. Kennedy's documents related to 1963 would also be made public.
In January this year, he also signed an executive order to make public documents related to the assassinations of Robert F. Kennedy and Martin Luther King in 1968. In March, secret documents related to the 1963 assassination of John F. Kennedy were released.
Let us tell you that the 35th US President John F. Kennedy was going to a rally in an open car. Then three bullets were fired at him from the topmost window of a building. Two bullets hit his head, one pierced his throat. Kennedy died in the car itself.
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