The Rev. Martin Luther King Jr.'s family is concerned that President Trump's order to release records about his assassination ...

President Trump signed an executive order declassify any remaining files from Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination. MLK was shot and killed on April 4, 1968, in Memphis.

assassination. Mary Ellen Ford was a 21-year-old cook at Memphis’ Lorraine Motel in April 1968, when the Rev. Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. checked in to the Tennessee motel for the last time.

“For us, the assassination of our father is a deeply ... as he stood on a second-floor balcony at the Lorraine Motel in Memphis, Tenn. Friends and family of Martin Luther King Jr.

Congress passed a law in 1992 requiring the documents surrounding President Kennedy's assassination to be released by 2017.

The Lorraine Motel is located in Memphis just blocks ... rotating exhibits on the Civil Rights Movement. Days after King's assassination, legislation was drafted to have Martin Luther King Jr.