While Young was serving Georgia’s 5th Congressional District, he said he was asked to lead the panel looking into King’s assassination.

MEMPHIS, Tenn. (AP) — Federal records related to the investigation into the 1968 assassination of the Rev. Martin Luther King Jr. have been released, following the disclosure in March of tens of thousands of documents about the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Historians assessing the trove of newly released documents are cautioning people against the idea that they contain any groundbreaking information.