Why is Martin Luther King's Records of Information Sealed ?

Question

His Freedom of Information records have been sealed for 50 years? When the Records of all past Presidents are open?

Answer 1

Martin Luther King Jr. was not a president, so that part of the Freedom of Information Act doesn't apply to him. When will they be opened? Whenever his will and his family say so.

Answer 2

It took an act of Congress to open up the JFK records; Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992.

And actually, MLK records are available. Here's 16,000 pages obtained through the Freedom of Information Act:
http://foia.fbi.gov/foiaindex/king.htm

Answer 3

I have read some documents somewhere on the internet that he was involved in a number of salacious acts. These involved things such as prostitution, kickbacks and organized crime. I am by no means saying that I believe any of it to be true. I am only stating that that stuff is out there and perhaps that has something to do with his files being sealed. Perhaps it's to protect his image? I don't know.

Answer 4

in all hazard through fact it might look slightly hypocritical to drag his call via the airborne dirt and dirt whilst a similar wasn't performed whilst different monuments have been outfitted. we've a wealthy history of celebrating people who owned slaves (Jefferson, absolutely everyone?), for God's sake. Why is it which you in simple terms get dissatisfied or in touch whilst the mandatory discern of the Civil Rights stream gets some popularity? replaced into he appropriate? No. Is there some unfavourable stuff in his FBI record? in line with hazard. yet enable's say who compiled that FBI record: J. Edgar Hoover. no longer precisely a sparkling checklist there, the two. And we named the FBI headquarters after him. If we in simple terms outfitted monuments to those with fairly appropriate information, we does no longer have any monuments in any respect.

Answer 5

There are likely two reasons...the first being there might be time limit before the public has any access such as with the US census or local birth and death records. The second is he was a public figure and the information might not be very complimentory. He was very anti-war and there might even be personal information that might demean his character.

Answer 6

He wasn't in public office though he may have been a public figure. Those rules don't apply to his papers. Perhaps the papers from the FBI in which Hoover made agents watch him and tap his phone and so forth will be revealed under freedom of information but not his private stuff. That's up to his estate.

Answer 7

Here's a great quote from America's great hero:

"The ultimate weakness of violence is that it is a descending spiral, begetting the very thing it seeks to destroy...Darkness cannot drive out darkness; only light can do that. Hate cannot drive out hate; only love can do that."

Answer 8

I believe it is because some agency/agencies of the government have files on him. That is just my opinion.

Answer 9

If the whole truth were known there probably would be more roits