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JFKRA Confusion at NARA
[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
Review of China Nurse, 1932-1939
On the front lines Ewen, Jean. China nurse, 1932-1939. Toronto: McClelland and Stewart, 1981. Jean Ewen was a Canadian nurse who spent 6 years in China, working first with Catholic missionaries, then with the Chinese Communists’ 8th and New 4th … Continue reading
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Review of Decadence Mandchoue
Indefatigable reiteration Backhouse, Edmund Trelawny. Decadence Mandchoue: The China Memoirs of Sir Edmund Trelawny Backhouse. Ed. Derek Sandhaus. Hong Kong: Earnshaw, 2011. Make no mistake about it: Decadence Mandchoue is a work of pure fantasy, for the most part a … Continue reading
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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
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
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
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