Author Archives: Robert

Forthcoming on the JFK Assassination Records Collection

Posted on March 16, 2018 by Robert

I’m working on a new web page that will serve as an introduction to the JFK Assassination Record Collection (ARC) at the National Archives and Record Administration (NARA). My guess is that I can have it up sometime next week. … Continue reading →

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Counting records at Mary Ferrell

Posted on March 10, 2018 by Robert

[Text revised and postscript added 2018-03-13] I’ve been doing some record counting at the Mary Ferrell website (MF). This is possible through a tool added to MF in 2016, called the JFK Database Explorer. According to the FAQ for the … Continue reading →

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Welcome to the 2018 spring semester!

Posted on February 28, 2018 by Robert

Hello to my students, glad to see everyone back! This will be a busier semester than the fall, since I am substituting for Prof. Wang Huei-ru in the second semester of History of American Literature. I am also teaching a … Continue reading →

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Problems and a pause

Posted on February 22, 2018 by Robert

I am concerned that I have gotten several things wrong in recent posts, so for now I am going to stop posting about the JFKRA releases at NARA. It will probably take a while to figure out what’s what. This … Continue reading →

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Tentative numbers for NARA 2018

Posted on February 15, 2018 by Robert

[See the postscript added on 3/25/2018] I have finished looking at the 3082 records which are listed in NARA 2018, but not in NARA 2017, as discussed by John Greenewald (see earlier post). Unfortunately, I have not been able to … Continue reading →

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Indexing at NARA: Putting the pieces together

Posted on February 12, 2018 by Robert

This is another post on the JFK Records Act Release 6 at NARA. To get up to speed on the subject, I suggest looking at the other posts in this category (JFK ARCA). As I noted at the end of … Continue reading →

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A note on NARA 2018

Posted on February 11, 2018 by Robert

I am still looking at NARA 2018, the new list of JFK records from NARA which The Black Vault website posted January 29. It is interesting and helpful information, but as I said in my last post, I don’t think … Continue reading →

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Another list from NARA

Posted on February 9, 2018 by Robert

Another list from NARA has been posted, this time at The Black Vault. The link can be found here. According to the link, the list is the result of an FOIA case (#NARA-NGC-2018-000072), and the BV was nice enough to … Continue reading →

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Review of The Man on Mao’s Right

Posted on February 6, 2018 by Robert

Portrait of a diplomat Ji, Chaozhu. The man on Mao’s right: from Harvard yard to Tiananmen Square, my life inside China’s Foreign Ministry. New York: Random House, 2008. For those interested in the rise of the Chinese diplomatic establishment, this … Continue reading →

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CLLD list on line

Posted on February 2, 2018 by Robert

Last month I put up a new version of my list of foreign languages and literature departments in Taiwan and Hong Kong. I now have a new list up, for all the Chinese languages and literature departments. This list also … Continue reading →

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