On Monday, the federal government made public the documents related to the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., fulfilling a directive issued earlier this year by President Trump. The Trump administrations release of the FBI’s surveillance of King Jr. was met with opposition from his family and the civil rights group that he led until his assassination. Director of National Intelligence Tulsi Gabbard announced that 230,000 files related to the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr would be made public, writing on X: “Today, after nearly 60 years of questions surrounding the assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr., we are releasing 230,000 MLK assassination files, available now at http://archives.gov/mlk. “These documents have been gathering dust in various federal buildings for years, until today,” the ODNI stated. The release involves records that had been under a court-imposed seal since 1977, when the FBI first gathered the records and turned them over to the National Archives and Records Administration.