Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover\u2019s efforts to discredit revered activist<\/p>\n
The family of Martin Luther King Jr<\/a> has expressed concern over Donald Trump\u2019s executive order<\/a> to release records surrounding the civil rights leader\u2019s assassination, saying the president\u2019s mandate could revive efforts to discredit the revered activist with the public.<\/p>\n Speaking to Axios<\/a>, a friend of the King family said: \u201cWe know J Edgar Hoover tried to destroy Dr King\u2019s legacy, and the family doesn\u2019t want that effort to prevail,\u201d referring to the late former FBI director and his agency\u2019s years-long surveillance<\/a> of King as well his associates.<\/p>\n Continue reading…<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Family of Martin Luther King Jr says Trump mandate could revive J Edgar Hoover\u2019s efforts to discredit revered activist The family of Martin Luther King Jr has expressed concern over Donald Trump\u2019s executive order to release records surrounding the civil rights leader\u2019s assassination, saying the president\u2019s mandate could revive efforts to discredit the revered activist … Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-33532","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33532","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=33532"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/33532\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=33532"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=33532"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=33532"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}