MLK Jr. assassination files released

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(NewsNation) — The Trump administration on Monday released more than 230,000 pages of previously classified documents related to the 1968 assassination of civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced the release, carried out under President Donald Trump's executive order directing full transparency on the assassinations of King, President John F. Kennedy and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy.

The documents, now available at archives.gov/mlk, include FBI investigation details, internal memos tracking case progress and information about James Earl Ray's former cellmate who claimed Ray discussed an assassination plot.

The files also contain foreign evidence from Canadian police and CIA records on the international manhunt for Ray.