I have recently heard from NARA on its future plans for database updates and record releases from the JFK Assassination Records Collection.
After the updated JFK collection database (NARA 21 for short) was posted on-line in June 2021, I wondered about NARA’s plans for further reviews, updates, and releases.…
[Revised 7/18/2021]
This is my fourth note on NARA 21, the updated version of the JFK ARC database (available here). See the first note in this series for more details on the what, when, why of NARA 21.
This note deals with one of my main interests in the ARC: how many records in the Collection are still redacted, and on what basis do they remain redacted after the October 2017 “deadline” for the release of ARC records?…
[Updated on 7/16/2021]
This is my third note on NARA 21, the updated version of the JFK ARC database (available here). See the earlier notes in this series for more details on the what, when, why of NARA 21.
This note deals with one of the most discussed issues relating to the ARC: how many records are withheld in full, and on what basis do they remain withheld despite the passage of the October 2017 “deadline” for the release of ARC records?…
This is my second note on NARA 21, the revised version of the JFK ARC database (available here). The ACRS, the on-line version of the JFK database, is still off-line undergoing maintenance. This new version of the database, NARA 21, consists of six excel files which give a snapshot of the database as of May 17, 2021.…
[Updated 7/15/2021]
As I noted in my last post, there is a new version of the JFK Assassination Records Collection database now available at NARA (here). Six excel files were posted online, apparently in mid-June. These files represent a new version of the ARC database with important information on the current state of the JFK Collection.…
It had been a while since I visited the JFK ARC pages at NARA, so I was pleasantly surprised this morning to see that a new version of the Assassination Collection Reference System (ACRS) database has been posted in the form of six excel files, apparently added in mid-June 2021.…
This is a continuation of my two previous posts on John Caesar Grossi, a minor figure in the JFK assassination who is the subject of a surprising number of FBI files in the JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC).
Many documents in these files had extensive postponements; a number were withheld in full.…
I finally have an introductory page on the content of the ARC. Here is a link to it. There is another link to it on my home page as well. Let me know if you have any corrections or suggestions! …
This is my fourth post on NBR records in the JFK Assassination Records Collection. (See here for a general introduction to records designated NBR “not believed relevant”).
The documents I discuss in this post are financial records of the Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC). The CRC was “an umbrella group of anti-Castro groups formed with the support of the U.S.…
This is the first note in a new series on how the Mary Ferrell Foundation (MFF) managed to match up the records from NARA’s 2017-2018 ARC releases with the appropriate metadata and plug them in to their massive document archive.
This was a big, big job; my hat is off to them, particularly to Mary Ferrell Foundation President Rex Bradford, who doubles as the MFF’s website designer and programmer.…