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JFKRA Release 6: The two missing files
NARA’s announcement of JFKRA release 6 stated that 3,539 files were posted on NARA’s website. As I noted in an earlier post (here), I was only able to find 3537, leaving two unaccounted for. This is the kind of thing … Continue reading
JFKRA Release 6: Replacing files at NARA
This post continues a discussion of the sixth release of JFKRA records from NARA. This time I will look at a quirk of release 6 that I call replacement files. As I noted a while ago (here and here), in … Continue reading
JFK Records Act Releases: Errata
I had hoped to have another post on JFKRA release 6 from NARA, but there are some problems with the release metadata. For one thing, there are some typos in the RIF numbers that have made it hard to figure … Continue reading
Wisconsin by air
A video from number one son Nick, who got his drone pilot license earlier this year. Credit for his hand and eye coordination, and sense of picture composition, goes to his mom, not me.
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JFK Records Act Releases: 12-15 update
The National Archives and Record Administration (NARA) has released a sixth set of records under the JFK Records Act. The release, which took place on December 15, was announced here. According to the announcement, At this point, with the exception … Continue reading
ARRB Electronic Records at NARA
In all the news coverage about the release of documents under the JFK Records Act, one release has attracted almost no attention. As the NARA press release on the October 26 release noted (here), the electronic records of the Assassination … Continue reading
Review of Reporting the Chinese Revolution: The Letters of Rayna Prohme
Letters from a fading past This book consists of a narrative by two editors, Baruch Hirson and Arthur Knodel, written around a few dozen letters by Rayna Prohme. Rayna was an American who, together with her husband Bill Prohme, ran … Continue reading
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An index to Hsiao-hsueh k’ao
Today I’m posting another recycled paper, an index to a book called 小學考 (Hsiao-hsueh k’ao, pinyin Xiaoxue kao). The link to download the index is here. I compiled this index in June 1991, when I was still a graduate student. … Continue reading
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How to select/display all rows with duplicate values in MySQL
(This should be a fub, but the description is too long.) One of the most frequent uses of database tables is to identify duplicate values in your data. Assume you have a table with a list of names, and you … Continue reading
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Review of Ronald Radosh, Red Star Over Hollywood: The Film Colony’s Long Romance with the Left
Blacklist back-story Author Ronald Radosh has a back story himself, for those interested: once a Communist Party member himself, he quit, moved to the new “left”, then moved to the new “right” in the 1980s. I knew of him because … Continue reading
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