Category Archives: JFK ARC

Posts about the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection, held at the National Archives and Record Administraion (NARA)

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

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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

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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

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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

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JFK Records Act Releases: A comparison with NARA 2016

In a recent series of posts here, I have been looking at the records released by the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) under the JFK Records Act. These are the JFK assassination records that were originally mandated to be … Continue reading

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JFK Records Act Releases: Audit

This post is a continuation of my previous post on the JFKRA releases. It is more number checking, no comments here on the content of the releases. This is probably boring to most readers (if there are any), but it’s … Continue reading

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JFK Records Act Releases: 11-17 Update

[Corrected 1/19/2018] That was fast. NARA released another set of JFKRA documents on November 17. According to NARA’s press release, there 10744 documents in this set (144 previously withheld in full, 10600 withheld in part), all from the FBI. Once … Continue reading

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The 2017 JFK Records Act releases at NARA: Q & A

After looking at Harold Weisberg’s archive last year, I became interested in the JFK assassination, a subject I had never really looked at before. The recent NARA release of documents under the JFK Records Act, which was supposed to be … Continue reading

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