Federal records about Dr. Martin Luther King's assassination in Memphis for more than five decades are about to be declassified and made public for the first time.

US President Donald Trump signed an executive order that will release documents on the 1960s assassinations of JFK's younger brother Robert F Kennedy and civil rights leader Martin Luther King Jr.

In a statement Thursday, King's family members said they would like to have the chance to review the files before it is released to the public.

US President Donald Trump has ordered officials to make plans to declassify documents related to three of the most consequential assassinations in US history – the killings of John F Kennedy, Robert F ...