[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.…
[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.…