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Max Holland on the ARC releases

Posted on January 25, 2019 by Robert

Having gone through tons of ARC release trivia, I’m finally looking at what it all adds to our knowledge of the JFK assassination. This post begins with a look at a December 2017 article by Max Holland, who makes many … Continue reading →

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Redaction counts in the ARC

Posted on January 14, 2019 by Robert

In my recent posts on the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC), I have been looking at some of the fine (even trivial) details of the most recent release of redacted texts in the Collection. This post steps back to look … Continue reading →

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A revised file count for NARA 18

Posted on January 7, 2019 by Robert

This post discusses NARA 18, a spreadsheet posted at the National Archives and Record Administration on 26 April 2018. NARA 18 gives a cumulative list of documents released from the JFK Assassination Records Collection from July 2017 to April 2018. … Continue reading →

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NF18 and the 4/26 ARC releases

Posted on January 1, 2019 by Robert

NF18 is a list of redacted documents in the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection (the ARC) held at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This is an important document for those who are interested in how much material … Continue reading →

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The state of the JFK ARC: The Bradford critique

Posted on December 29, 2018 by Robert

This post will discuss the second of two recent reports on the status of the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC). My post on the first of the two is here. For those new to this subject, see here for an … Continue reading →

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The state of the JFK ARC: The IG report

Posted on December 14, 2018 by Robert

For those not familiar with the subject of this post, I have a new page introducing the JFK Assassination Records Collection (a link is at the top of the blog page). This should help make the discussion a little more … Continue reading →

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New reports on the ARC releases

Posted on July 7, 2018 by Robert

I have recently come across two 2018 reports on the final (?) ARC releases from NARA. The first of the two is Special Report No. 18-SR-07 and was released on 29 March 2018. It was issued by NARA Inspector- General … Continue reading →

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A note on ACRS “audit history”

Posted on July 5, 2018 by Robert

In my previous post I noted that a field in the metadata form (RIF) had been changed at some point in the early 2000s for a number of records in the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC). This change made it … Continue reading →

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More on the “old RIF numbers” at Mary Ferrell

Posted on June 28, 2018 by Robert

This post is a continuation of my April 2018 post on the “old RIF numbers” formerly used in the JFK Assassination Record Collection (ARC) at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This ID system is no longer used at … Continue reading →

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ARRB postponements and the microfilm Oswald 201 file

Posted on June 15, 2018 by Robert

Most of my recent spare time has gone into looking at the ARRB record notices published in the Federal Register (see here for an earlier post on this topic). I am interested in these notices for several reasons. One important … Continue reading →

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