I recently had the pleasure of doing another interview with Fred Litwin on the current state of the JFK Assassination Records Collection. Fred’s blog, On the Trail of Delusion, is a valuable source on all manner of JFK assassination information, and his three books on the assassination are must-read material.…
This is the second note in a series updating release information in NARA’s JFK Database. The first note is here.
The JFK Database is a compilation of identification aids for the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC). It is an essential tool for working with the ARC.…
The JFK Database is essential for anyone working with the JFK Assassination Records Collection (JFKARC). Unfortunately, the last official update to the JFK Database was in 2021. In the meantime, as of this writing (July 2026), over 14,000 records have been re-released, meaning key Database information is out of date.
Fortunately, we have detailed information on changes since 2021, so now that record releases are basically completed, it is possible for researchers to update the JFK database themselves.…
[revised and corrected 2025-06-16]
In this recent note I promised to discuss a number of HSCA depositions not yet released in full. This note provides the details.
To understand the full background, start with this note.
The short version: HSCA formally deposed many people. Transcripts of depositions are available in the ARC, but it turns out that for 24 depositions, TWO copies of transcripts are available in the ARC.…
This note concludes my close look at the new versions of ARC records which NARA posted on 30 January 2026. This note covers FBI records.
There are major problems with some of the final FBI record releases in the ARC. I have discussed these problems elsewhere on this blog. Skipping the problematic records, I will instead give an overview of 85 of the 102 FBI pdfs posted on 30 January.…
This note continues my close look at the new versions of ARC records posted at NARA on 30 January 2026. It covers 16 new pdfs. These are in addition to the 12 pdfs discussed in part 3, and the 9 CIA pdfs covered in part 2.
These notes do not cover the FBI records posted on January 30.…
This post looks at 12 ARC records released on 30 January 2026 which have not previously appeared online. Are these truly new documents? If yes, where did they come from and what is in them? If they were previously available on-site at NARA, why have they only been posted online now?…
In this note, I begin a more detailed look at the 140 JFKARC pdfs NARA published on 30 Jan 2026. Do these pdfs release more previously redacted information? If so what, and why is redacted information still being released over eight months after the main 2025 ARC releases?
This post is limited to the 9 CIA records in the January releases.…
MFF President Rex Bradford has a new post up on the “State of the JFK Releases 2026”, available here. As usual, Rex B is well worth a careful read.
His main conclusion: “The year 2025 finally saw the full declassification of the bulk of the records collected in the 1990s under the JFK Records Collection Act.”…
NARA released 140 new pdfs from the JFK Assassination Records Collection on January 30. This post takes a look at the pdfs to see what new information has become available. Read on if you’re still interested!
This new release received a quite low profile announcement. The only place it got any notice was on NARA’s page for the 2025 JFK releases, under the section “Accessing the Records”, where a single line has been added: “January 30, 2026 – 10:00 AM EST Release: 11,022 pages (140 PDF files).”…