Martin Luther King Jr.’s family offered their response to President Trump’s decision to release the secret FBI files on the civil rights icon’s assassination nearly 60 years ago — a “deeply personal family loss” that they are still feeling today.
President Trump has announced plans to release classified documents on high-profile assassinations, including that of civil-rights icon Martin Luther King.
The Federal Bureau of Investigation has been considered the world’s premier law enforcement agency for a century since its founding. It had grown into many different areas since its inception. The first director of the FBI was also its longest serving spanning almost five decades under eight presidents and he was instrumental in creating an effective all encompassing yet sometimes controversial organization.
Key nominations are drawing attention, with particular concern over Kash Patel's nomination to be director of the FBI.
Sen. Lindsey Graham said he plans to support Kash Patel, President-elect Donald Trump's pick to lead the FBI who has sparked controversy even among some former Trump officials.
As one of the very few women in Congress, Florence, never considered herself a feminist and was never seen as a suffragette.
The information contained in the memos won’t be confirmed until 2027. That’s when the FBI’s full audiotapes, photographs and film footage of King will be unsealed per a 1977 court order.
As Donald Trump signs an executive order to declassify and release all remaining records relating to the assassination of President John F Kennedy, ‘The Rest is History’ podcaster and historian, Dominic Sandbrook,
When President Donald Trump announced an executive order Thursday to release the remaining government files in three of the country’s most notorious assassinations, it immediately grabbed public attention and raised intrigue.
According to Newsweek, Trump announced earlier this week that, in the interest of government transparency, he will authorize the release of documents related to the circumstances around Dr. King’s death and the FBI surveillance and covert investigations conducted into MLK and his organization of civil rights activists.
Don’t expect President Trump’s order to declassify and release the JFK, RFK and MKL Jr. assassination records to satisfy conspiracy theorists — but it may be a grim eye-opener about CIA, Secret Service and FBI failures.
An investigative journalist and expert on the JFK and Martin Luther King Jr. assassinations said the feds’ secret files on the murders will likely reveal “fascinating’’ new details about the