Showing posts with label Kennedy_Assassination. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Kennedy_Assassination. Show all posts

Thursday, October 26, 2017

The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection

"John F. Kennedy was killed on November 22, 1963. Almost 30 years later, Congress enacted the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992. The Act mandated that all assassination-related material be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration (NARA).   The resulting Collection consists of more than 5 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts (approximately 2,000 cubic feet of records). Most of the records are open for research..."
President Kennedy Assassination Records

Tuesday, July 25, 2017

JFK Assassination Records - 2017 Additional Documents Release

"The National Archives and Records Administration is releasing documents previously withheld in accordance with the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act.  The vast majority of the Collection (88%) has been open in full and released to the public since the late 1990s.  The records at issue are documents previously identified as assassination records, but withheld in full or withheld in part.  Learn more
This release consists of 3,810 documents, including 441 formerly withheld-in-full documents and 3,369 documents formerly released with portions redacted.  The documents originate from FBI and CIA series identified by the Assassination Records Review Board as assassination records.  More releases will follow.
To view the entire file, you may visit the National Archives at College Park and request access to the original records..."

JFK assassination records