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Another look at what is not in NARA 18
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
NSA documents in the ARC: The myth of “unknown” records
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
Forthcoming on the JFK Assassination Records Collection
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
Counting records at Mary Ferrell
[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
Welcome to the 2018 spring semester!
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
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
Tentative numbers for NARA 2018
[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
Indexing at NARA: Putting the pieces together
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
A note on NARA 2018
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
Another list from NARA
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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