[First posted on December 11, 2017, at rgr-cyt.org.]
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 Record Review Board, the agency which determined what government records would be released under the JFKRA, were also released.…
[First posted on November 30, 2017, at rgr-cyt.org.]
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 released by October 26, 2017.…
[First posted on November 28, 2017 at rgr-cyt.org.]
This post is a continuation of my previous post on the 2017 ARC 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 always good to know the exact extent of the material you’re dealing with, otherwise you may wind up drawing conclusions based on partial or inaccurate information and numbers.…
[First posted on November 19, 2017 at rgr-cyt.org]
NARA released a fifth set of ARC documents on November 17. According to NARA’s press release, there are 10744 documents in this set (144 previously withheld in full, 10600 withheld in part), all from the FBI. Once again there are duplicates in this set, this time 7 documents that have the same RIF numbers as do documents in the fourth release on November 3.…
[First posted on November 14, 2017 at rgr-cyt.org.]
After looking at Harold Weisberg’s archive last year, I became interested in the JFK assassination, a subject I had never really looked at before. The recent NARA release of documents under the JFK Records Act, which was supposed to be the final release of all previously withheld documents, was therefore quite interesting to me.…