[First posted on March 16, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
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.…
[First posted on March 10, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
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 Explorer, it is based on a copy of NARA’s on-line finding-aid database for the JFK Assassination Record Collection.…
[First posted on February 22, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
I am concerned that I have gotten several things wrong in recent posts, so for now I am going to stop posting about the JFK ARC releases at NARA. It will probably take a while to figure out what’s what. This post is a brief note on my concerns.…
[First posted on February 15, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
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 access NARA’s JFK Records Collection catalog for over 5 days now.…
[First posted on February 12, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
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 a recent post, NARA’s spreadsheet for JFK record act release 6 lists a number of records where there are two different files having the same record number.…
[First posted on February 11, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
I am still looking at NF18, 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 the list indicates there are still over 3000 JFK records that have never been released.…
[First posted on February 9, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
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 provide both a pdf and excel version of the list, very handy indeed.…
[First posted on January 28, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
As I noted in an earlier post, there are a number of records listed twice in NARA’s spreadsheet of the JFK ARC documents which it has posted on line.
These double listings come in two varieties: in one case there are actually two files posted at NARA: one from release ‘A’ and one from release ‘B’, both files presenting the same document, but with various differences between them.…
[First posted on January 24, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
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 confusing (to me). The subject of the post today is confusing++.
There are three entries on the NARA Release 6 spreadsheet that are problematic.…
[First posted on January 12, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
NARA’s announcement of JFK AR 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 that drives me crazy, so I’ve been looking for them for almost a month now.…