India, July 22 -- The Trump administration has released a set of documents on the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr, which had been kept confidential for decades.

The documents, totaling 230,000 pages, were released by Attorney General Pamela Bondi in the presence of Dr. Alveda King at the Department of Justice.

She is the niece of Martin Luther King Jr. and daughter of civil rights activist A. D. King.

In January, President Donald Trump issued an Executive Order for the documents from the assassinations of King and former President John F Kennedy to be declassified.

The files were disclosed after months of collaboration between the Department of Justice, Office of the Director of National Intelligence, CIA, and National Archives a...