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American criminal, convicted for the murder of civil rights activist and Nobel peace prize laureate Martin Luther King Jr. in 1968
remains an iconic figure for civil rights, but his legacy contains documented and contested negative elements: credible archival evidence of extramarital sexual activity and questionable behavior reve...
Official, multi-decade inquiries concluded there is no convincing evidence that any U.S. government agency participated in a plot to kill , and was identified as the shooter and convicted; nevertheles...
The claim that Martin Luther King Jr. was smothered to death rather than killed by a gunshot is not supported by the bulk of official investigations and mainstream reporting: congressional and forensi...
No definitive government culpability has been legally confirmed: multiple official U.S. investigations concluded there is no reliable evidence that federal, state, or local government agencies orchest...
The claim that , , , , , and were “all shot by Democrats” is false: the historical record identifies individual shooters with varied backgrounds and motives, and none of the authoritative accounts in ...
A large cache of and documents about was posted by the on July 21, 2025 after a January 23, 2025 executive order, but the specific surveillance tapes and transcripts created by FBI electronic monitori...
— roughly 230,000–240,000 pages — was declassified and posted in 2025 after ’s directed the release of assassination files, and the release was coordinated by the , DNI, , and . The newly available ma...
was a Baptist minister who became the central leader of the civil rights movement from the mid-1950s until his assassination in 1968, advocating nonviolent direct action to achieve legal and social eq...
A line of —from 19th‑century presidents to civil‑rights leaders to recent high‑profile murders—has often yielded a named, legally identified perpetrator; those actors variously cited personal grievanc...
The CIA’s withholding of JFK assassination records can be legally justified under FOIA when exemptions protect , but that legal permissibility coexists with ongoing public and statutory pressure for d...