Trump administration released FBI records on MLK Jr. despite his family’s opposition
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The Trump administration has released records of the FBI’s surveillance of Martin Luther King Jr., despite opposition from the slain Nobel laureate’s family and the civil rights group that he led until his 1968 assassination.
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