[First posted on January 25, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
Having gone through tons of ARC release trivia, I’m finally looking at what it all adds to our knowledge of the JFK assassination. This post begins with a look at a December 2017 article by Max Holland, who makes many important points on this subject.…
[First posted on January 14, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
In my recent posts on the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC), I have been looking at some of the fine (even trivial) details of the most recent release of redacted texts in the Collection. This post steps back to look at totals for all seven releases of documents in 2017-2018.…
[First posted on January 7, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This post discusses NARA 18, a spreadsheet posted at the National Archives and Record Administration on 26 April 2018. NARA 18 gives a cumulative list of documents released from the JFK Assassination Records Collection from July 2017 to April 2018.
After a recount, I have to revise the file count I gave for NARA 18 on 5 May 2018 (here).…
[First posted on January 1, 2019, at rgr-cyt.org.]
NF18 is a list of redacted documents in the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection (the ARC) held at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). This is an important document for those who are interested in how much material in the Collection remains unreleased.…
[First posted on December 29, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This post will discuss the second of two recent reports on the status of the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC). My post on the first report is here.
The report covered in this post, dated June 18, 2018, is by Rex Bradford, president of the Mary Ferrell Foundation.…
[First posted on December 14, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
For those not familiar with the subject of this post, I have a new page introducing the JFK Assassination Records Collection (a link is at the top of the blog page). This should help make the discussion a little more comprehensible.
I’ve now had a look at the two reports I mentioned in my last post.…
[First posted on July 7, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
I have recently come across two 2018 reports on the final (?) ARC releases from NARA. The first of the two is Special Report No. 18-SR-07 and was released on 29 March 2018. It was issued by NARA Inspector- General James Springs and evaluates NARA’s compliance with the 1992 JFK Assassination Records Collection Act.…
[First posted on July 5, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
In my previous post I noted that a field in the metadata form (RIF) had been changed at some point in the early 2000s for a number of records in the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC). This change made it a very difficult task to identify a number of records in the Mary Ferrell collection of ARC records, a pity if you are trying to squeeze the maximum use out of the great MF collection.…
[First posted on June 28, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
This post is a continuation of my April 2018 post on the “old RIF numbers” formerly used in the JFK Assassination Record Collection (ARC) at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).
This ID system is no longer used at NARA, but there are still many documents using it in the important on-line version of the ARC at the Mary Ferrell website.…
[First posted on June 15, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]
Most of my recent spare time has gone into looking at the ARRB record notices published in the Federal Register (see here for an earlier post on this topic).
I am interested in these notices for several reasons. One important reason is that the record notices reference many documents that are not listed in the Assassination Collection Reference System (ACRS), NARA’s database of ARC finding aids.…