内容摘要：“It gave me a sense of confidence and it gave me confidence to move forward in life instead of playing it safe,” he said.

“It gave me a sense of confidence and it gave me confidence to move forward in life instead of playing it safe,” he said.

“Thankfully, I am not here to defend the allegations in the underlying complaint,” Walker told the judge.Nobody involved in the litigation knows what’s in the archives and whether any of it relates to King’s assassination.

“It could be easy. There could be nothing, and then we just all go away,” Walker said.“It’s not going to happen overnight,” the judge said. “The court is going to move very carefully.”on April 4, 1968, while standing on the balcony of a motel in Memphis, Tennessee.

In 1976, the SCLC and Bernard Lee, who was King’s executive assistant at the organization, filed a lawsuit to challenge the legality of the FBI’s surveillance. The 1977 court order required the FBI to compile records of its telephone wiretapping operations, between 1963 and 1968, at King’s home and at the SCLC offices in Atlanta and New York.Bernice King, the civil rights leader’s youngest daughter, said in

that she hopes the files are permanently sealed or destroyed.

“It is unquestionable that my father was a private citizen, not an elected official, who enjoyed the right to privacy that should be afforded to all private citizens of this country,” she said. “To not only be unjustifiably surveilled, but to have the purported surveillance files made public would be a travesty of justice.”The Associated Press Health and Science Department receives support from the Howard Hughes Medical Institute’s Science and Educational Media Group and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. The AP is solely responsible for all content.

ARAFAT, Saudi Arabia (AP) — More than 1.5 million foreign pilgrims are in Saudi Arabia for this year’s, a government spokesperson said Wednesday.

, a religious obligation involving rituals and acts of worship that every Muslim must fulfil if they have the money and are physically able to do it.Hajj Ministry spokesperson Ghassan Al-Nuwaimi provided an approximate number for foreigners at this year’s pilgrimage. He did not say how many domestic pilgrims were taking part. Last year, there were 1,611,310 pilgrims from outside the country.