Category Archives: JFK ARC

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 →

[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 →

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 →

[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 →

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 →

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 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 →

[This article was revised on 1/30/2018 to correct several major points.] As I noted in an earlier post, there are a number of records listed twice in NARA’s spreadsheet of the JFKRA documents which it has posted on line. These … Continue reading →

[Revised on 2018/1/26 to fix a goof. I was even more confused than I thought.] Most of my posts about the JFK records act releases at NARA are on very trivial subjects, but the problems I discuss are, nonetheless, quite … Continue reading →

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 →