After 57 years after the death of the man – a symbol and leader of the bourgeois and political rights of African Americans, his government Donald Trump He released yesterday Monday (21.07.2025) “Over 230,000 pages” so far confidential documents that have been deleased on his murder Martin Luther Kingdespite the concerns expressed by the family.
Republican President Donald Trump ordered January 23rd with decree of being declassified thousands of government documents for the president’s murders John F. Kennedy In 1963, of the Senator’s brother Robert F. Kennedy — The so -called Bobby- as well as the Martin Luther King In 1968.
Last March, national records, published secret – As then- Documents on the murder of President Kennedy, who had shaken the US and the whole planet, triggering a series conspiracy and scripts.
In April, they did the same for the murder of Bobby Kennedy, the father of current Trump government health minister, Robert Kennedy Junior and justice minister of the murdered Democratic President.
The 230,000 pages of files released yesterday is mainly from the Federal Police (FBI) investigation for the trips on the outside of the alleged murderer of Martin Luther King, or even the depositIn a statement, the US Intelligence Services Coordinator (DNI), Talsy Gabard.
The current US government ‘guarantees complete transparency For this tragic and focal episode of our country’s history, “he added.
But in a joint announcement, the children of the emblematic defender of civil rights expressed worry For the potential abuse of these documents to make themselves’attacks against the inheritance‘Their father and’ emovement of the movement»Whom he led.
When he was still alive, Dr. King was in the targeting ‘misinformation and monitoring campaign’orchestrated by the director of FBI In the season, the powerful Jay Edgar Hooverin order to “destroy his reputation and that of the civil rights movement in general,” they reminded.
They still emphasize that They never believed And they continue not to believe that James Earl Ray, a white advocate of racial segregation, were guilty For his murder, On April 4, 1968in a motel in Memphis, where he had gone to support workers in the strike -in -law.
James Earl Ray died in prison in 1998.
Who was Martin Luther King
Martin Luther King was an American shepherd of the doctrine of Baptistpacifist and fan of action through passive resistorleader of the African -American movement for the civil rights of African Americans.
After completing a series of theological studies, he took a shepherd position in a Baptist church and was involved in Fighting of African Americans to obtain politician and social rights.
In 1955 he led the victorious campaign of the boycott of Public Buses of Montgomery, Alabama and in 1957 recognizing the need to create a nationwide instrument that would coordinate the African American struggle.
Founded her Conference of southern Christian leadership (Southern Christian Leadership Conference), one of the main anti -racist US organizations, and it was done her first chairman.
In 1961 he encouraged the campaign “Passengers for freedom“, The mobilization that brought the real end to racial divisions in all public transport.
The 1962 He led the fight against him racism In Albani, Georgia (Movement of Albani) and in 1963 he helped in the event protest in the city of Birmingham, Alabama. At the same time he led the “march in Washington” and there he gave his historical speech that begins with the phrase “I have a dream …“, In which he describes his vision for equality in American society.
To October 14, 1964 he was awarded the Nobel Prize For his struggles in favor of the political rights of colored through peaceful protests. In 1965 he led the march from Selma to Montgomery, protest for not giving up the right to vote to African Americans.
In the last years of his life spoke against the war in Vietnamcriticizing the US government, and in 1967 he also announced his famous speech “Beyond Vietnam».
In 1968, and while he was still planning a march to Washington, the ‘Poor of the Poor’murdered on April 4 in Memphis, Tennessee. King received after death a lot of discrimination such as the Presidential Medal for Freedom and the Gold Medal of Congress. In 1986 the January 15thon the day of his birth, he was declared an official celebration in the US.