The MLK Assasination Files: AI Restored

Welcome to the first fully searchable version of the July 2025 release of the Martin Luther King Jr. assassination records. Using modern AI-based tools, we aggregated over 6,200 PDFs released by the National Archives, corrected millions of errors in the low-quality scanned text and analyzed them with AI. To see why this is a game-changer for researchers, consider this example. The original FBI memo on the original of James Earl Ray's weapon is over-exposed causing the the National Archives digitally extracted text to contain numerous typos including the word "Alabama". Our AI pipeline corrected all the typos ensuring the document shows up in a search for "Alabama"

This scanned memo is over exposed and low resolution which adversely impacts computer legibility.

Computer extracted text (OCR) from the National Archives is riddled with typos, preventing it from showing up in search results for the word "Alabama".

Our AI software corrected 17 typos on this page alone, improving readability. This document now turns up in a search for "Alabama".

We hope MLK researchers will find the data useful. But also that historians may be interested in applying our techniques to other historical documents. Explore the rest of the site to learn more about our AI restoration process or search the MLK files. If you find this site useful, learn how you can cite and support our work.

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