Martin Luther King Jr.’s family has one request for Donald Trump, who has recently declassified the monumental figure’s FBI file.
On Thursday (Jan. 23), President Trump signed an executive order to release thousands of classified government documents, including the assassination of John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.
When speaking to reporters during the signing, the 47th president of the United States remarked that “a lot of people have been waiting for this for years…decades. Everything will be revealed.”
Dr. King’s daughter, Bernice King, took to X/Twitter to release a statement regarding her father’s file being declassified. She hoped the King family could see the files before they were shared with the public.
“Today, our family has learned that President Trump has ordered the declassification of the remaining records pertaining to the assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, his brother Robert F. Kennedy, and our father, Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply personal family loss that we have endured over the last 56 years,” the statement read. “We hope to be provided the opportunity to review the files as a family prior to its public release.”
The family also asserted that they were not taking any comments or interviews regarding the matter at this time.
A JFK and RFK family member offered their opinion on the matter as well, with Jack Kennedy Schlossberg blasting Trump for his executive order.
“JFK conspiracy theories—The truth is alot sadder than the myth — a tragedy that didn’t need to happen,” he typed on X/Twitter. “Not part of an inevitable grand scheme. Declassification is using JFK as a political prop, when he’s not here to punch back. There’s nothing heroic about it.”
Dr King was shot and killed in Memphis on a hotel balcony by a man named James Earl Ray in April 1968. Since then, the King family has continued fighting for the truth about what happened on that tragic day.
Over the years, conspiracy theorists have suggested that it was the FBI that got Dr. King killed. However, investigations conducted by the Department of Justice in 1977 and then in 1979 concluded that there “was no credible evidence to support” this theory.
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