Martin Luther King, Jr. walks across the balcony of the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, April 3, 1968. [AP Photo/Charles Kelly] Last Monday, the Trump administration released almost 250,000 pages of federal records in connection with the April 1968 assassination of Martin Luther King Jr.

The release includes more than 230,000 pages of records detailing the FBI’s investigation into King’s assassination.

An executive order from January continues to be fulfilled following the release of files regarding the assassination of Rev. Martin Luther King, Jr.