Gabbard Releases More Than 243,000 Pages of Martin Luther King Jr. Assassination Files

WASHINGTON—More than 243,000 pages of files related to the 1968 killing of civil rights legend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., were declassified and released on July 21 by the Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard. The release follows President Donald Trump’s January executive order mandating the release of documents, long sealed by intelligence agencies, related to the assassinations of King, former President John F. Kennedy, and his brother, Sen. Robert F. Kennedy. Records about the other two killings were released earlier this year. “The American people have waited nearly 60 years to see the full scope of the federal government’s investigation into Dr. King’s assassination,” Gabbard said in a statement....