Category Archives: Collection issues

Notes on the collection as a whole, including its history, management, and access issues.

Redaction counts in the ARC

[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.…

The state of the JFK ARC: The IG report

[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.…

Bill Kelly on the ARCA

[First posted on May 28, 2018, at rgr-cyt.org.]

The JFK Assassination Records Collection Act (ARCA) is the law that established the massive JFK Assassination Records Collection (ARC) at the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA). As federal law, the record of its enactment is about as public as you can get.…