[First posted on May 5, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This is my second post on the National Archive’s 4-26 release of documents from the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC). In this post I will look at the ultimate resolution of the ‘Withheld in full’ (WIF) documents. The summary: The WIF pantry is now bare.…
[First posted on April 28, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
It was difficult to come up with a snappy title for this post. Scare quotes around the word missing are a compromise. Otherwise it was something like “RIF forms that were completed but not included in NARA’s on-line database of ARC finding aids.”…
[First posted on April 27, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
NARA has come through with a new release of 19,045 ARC documents. There are many things to be said about this release, but for now I will simply put up a very important link to NARA’s JFK Assassination Records Processing Project
This page provides important explanations that, unfortunately, will probably not get mentioned at most of the websites that have been posting about the assassination records for the last couple of years.…
[First posted on April 25, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
I have added some new material to my ARRB lists and revised some of the record counts. This post is a short note on what changed.
I have added another set of meeting and hearing transcripts to my list of ARRB meetings.…
[First posted on April 21, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This is the third in a series of posts on the Assassination Record Review Board and the notices it published in the Federal Register. This post introduces the 50 record notices the ARRB published over its four years of existence.
In addition to general oversight powers, the JFK Assassination Record Collection Act gave the ARRB two key functions.…
[First posted on April 17, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This is the second of several posts I plan to put up discussing the ARRB notices published in the Federal Register. This post covers ARRB meeting notices, of which there were a lot. Federal agencies such as ARRB are required to announce their meetings in advance, regardless of whether they are open to the public or closed.…
[First posted on April 16, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
When Congress mandated the creation of the JFK Assassination Record Collection, it wanted to ensure maximum public access to the process. To do this, it decided to impose strict requirements on the Assassination Record Review Board (ARRB), the independent agency it established to oversee the Collection’s creation.…
[First posted on April 11, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This is a very technical post. It is intended for people who are seriously interested in finding ARC documents on-line at the Mary Ferrell Foundation website. Everyone else can skip this one.
The JFK Assassination Record Collection (ARC) is the great repository of all Federal agency records related to the assassination of President John F.…
[First posted on March 25, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
NF18 is a list of 22,933 records in the JFK Assassination Record Collection that have not yet been released in full. It is the result of an FOIA request from John Greenewald, who runs the website The Black Vault. The list is available as an excel file at NARA’s FOIA Electronic Reading Room (here) or at the FOIA Online site (here)
After receiving NF18, Greenewald compared it with NARA 17, the list of ARC documents processed and posted on-line at NARA in 2017.…
[First posted on March 20, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
Of the 35556 records from the JFK Assassination Record Collection (ARC) which were processed by NARA in 2017, one of the more interesting sets was 244 records from the National Security Agency (NSA). Two of these records had been withheld in full; the 2017 release was the first time they became available to the public.…