President Donald Trump's administration released 6,300 documents on Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination, uncovering witness accounts, James Earl Ray's fake identities and foreign propaganda.

The National Archives released over 240,000 pages of records in accordance with an executive order from January.

US President Donald Trump's administration has released a trove of records on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, including FBI surveillance files on the civil rights leader. A court-imposed order had kept the documents, totalling 230,000 pages, blocked from public view since 1977.