The National Archives released over 240,000 pages of records in accordance with an executive order from January.

Donald Trump has released a huge batch of previously classified documents about Dr Martin Luther King’s (MLK) assassination. The Office of the Director of National Intelligence (ODNI) is publishing 230,000 pages worth of documents relating to the death of the civil rights leader in 1968.

US President Donald Trump's administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader. A court-imposed order had kept the FBI documents, totalling 230,000 pages, blocked from public view since 1977.