A recent release of government documents surrounding the assassination of Martin Luther King Jr. contains several mislabeled files that primarily relate to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

The Dallas Express reviewed the trove of over 230,000 documents released July 21 by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) and found several files referencing alleged presidential assassin Lee Harvey Oswald and his wife, Marina.

The mislabeled records were listed under the MLK records collection, but were not found in the 2025 JFK file release.

One of the newly surfaced files is an extensive FBI interview with Marina Oswald conducted at the Dallas home of James Herbert Martin, who became Marina’s business manager following the assassination. The new material contains new personal details about her courtship with Oswald.

In one passage, Oswald reportedly told Marina he preferred the United States to Russia “because he could not take hard winters,” while hospitalized for a glandular problem during his early days living in the Soviet Union.

Another revealing section recounts how Marina had been romantically involved with another boy when she began dating Oswald, a medical student named Anatoli.

“She said, at this time she still saw on occasion another boy, but this was without the knowledge of OSWALD,” the document reads.

It remains unclear whether Anatoli is the same individual Marina later attempted to rekindle a relationship with during a tumultuous period in her marriage before the assassination of President Kennedy, something she described in her Warren Commission testimony and which has previously been excerpted by The Dallas Express.

Other mislabeled JFK files in question — none of which appeared in the 2025 trove of JFK-specific documents — include:

Each was released on July 21, 2025, as part of the MLK records, but appears to focus primarily on Oswald or others tied to the Kennedy case.

The broader MLK release, also stemming from Trump’s Executive Order 14176, unlocked 230,000 pages of documents related to the 1968 assassination of Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.

Attorney General Pamela Bondi commemorated the disclosure by hosting King’s niece, Dr. Alveda King, at the Department of Justice.

“The American people deserve answers decades after the horrific assassination of one of our nation’s great leaders,” Bondi said in a press release.

Alveda added, “While we continue to mourn his death, the declassification and release of these documents are a historic step towards the truth that the American people deserve.”

However, not every member of the King family agrees.

“We ask those who engage with the release of these files to do so with empathy, restraint, and respect for our family’s continuing grief,” King’s two living children said in a statement, per the Associated Press.

Dr. King was assassinated in Memphis, Tennessee, in 1968. While James Earl Ray pleaded guilty to the killing, a 1999 civil jury found that Ray had acted as part of a larger conspiracy. The Department of Justice, however, maintained in its own investigation that it found “nothing to disturb the 1969 judicial determination that James Earl Ray murdered Dr. King.”

Regarding the mislabeled files, a spokesman for NARA emailed The Dallas Express that it was the CIA’s responsibility to decide how to categorize these documents:

“As part of the July 21, 2025 release of records responsive to Executive Order 14176, the CIA provided NARA records that they deemed responsive and related to the MLK Assassination, including copies of documents from the JFK Assassination Records Collection that have been available onsite at the National Archives at College Park —with no redactions— since the 1990s. NARA will keep them up on the ‘Records Related to the Assassination of the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr.’ webpage as they were deemed responsive by the CIA.”

“Separately, work continues to systematically digitize the large body of JFK Assassination records that have been open for decades in NARA’s College Park research room, ultimately mirroring online everything in the JFK Assassination Records Collection that is available in person.”

What other Kennedy-related files may be buried within the MLK document trove remains to be seen. The Dallas Express is continuing to review the files and will report updates as they become available.