Author Archives: Robert

[Post script added 2018/5/9] For those not in the know, most (but not all) records in the JFK Assassination Records Collection at NARA have finding aids called Reader Information Forms (RIFs) Each RIF has a unique 13 digit number that … Continue reading →

It was difficult to come up with a snappy title for this post. Scare quotes around the word missing are a compromise. Otherwise it was something like “RIF forms that were completed but not included in NARA’s on-line database of … Continue reading →

NARA has come through with a new release of 19,045 ARC documents. There are many things to be said about this release, but for now I will simply put up a very important link to NARA’s JFK Assassination Records Processing … Continue reading →

I have added some new material to my ARRB lists and revised some of the record counts. This post is a short note on what changed. Meeting list: new transcripts I have added another set of meeting and hearing transcripts … Continue reading →

This is the third in a series of posts on the Assassination Record Review Board and the notices it published in the Federal Register. This post introduces the 50 record notices the ARRB published over its four years of existence. … Continue reading →

This is the second of several posts I plan to put up discussing the ARRB notices published in the Federal Register. This post covers ARRB meeting notices, of which there were a lot. Federal agencies such as ARRB are required … Continue reading →

When Congress mandated the creation of the JFK Assassination Record Collection, it wanted to ensure maximum public access to the process. To do this, it decided to impose strict requirements on the Assassination Record Review Board (ARRB), the independent agency … Continue reading →

This is a very technical post. It is intended for people who are seriously interested in finding ARC documents on-line at the Mary Ferrell Foundation website. Everyone else can skip this one. RIF documents in the ARC The JFK Assassination … Continue reading →

This is my fourth post on NARA 18, maybe I should start numbering them. NARA 18 is a list of 22,933 records in the JFK Assassination Record Collection that have not yet been released in full. It is the result … Continue reading →

Of the 35556 records from the JFK Assassination Record Collection (ARC) which were processed by NARA in 2017, one of the more interesting sets was 244 records from the National Security Agency (NSA). Two of these records had been withheld … Continue reading →