The American president ordered on January 23 by decree the declassification of government archives on the assassination of President John F. Kennedy in 1963, as well as on those of his brother Robert F. Kennedy, known as Bobby, and Martin Luther King Jr in 1968.
The 230,000 pages published this Monday relate in particular to the FBI investigation, the federal police, on the international hunt for the alleged assassin of Martin Luther King, or on the testimony of one of his fellow prisoners, according to a press release from the US national intelligence director Tulsi Gabbard, at the origin of the announcement.
The United States “ensure complete transparency on this tragic and decisive event in the history of the country“, she said. But in a statement, the children of the famous civil rights defender are concerned about a possible embezzlement of the publication of these documents in order to”to attack his posterity or the achievements of the movement“.
During his lifetime, Martin Luther King was targeted by a “Disinformation and surveillance campaign“Orchestrated by the director of the FBI of the time, the powerful J. Edgar Hoover, intended for”discredit its reputation and more generally that of the movement for civil rights“, they recall.