JFK Assassination Records - 2018 Additional Documents Release

The National Archives 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

These releases include FBI, CIA, and other agency documents (both formerly withheld in part and formerly withheld in full) identified by the Assassination Records Review Board as assassination records. The releases to date are as follows:

* Note: There are instances where multiple record identification numbers are associated with the same pdf. This is due to the fact that the files were scanned in batches.

Accessing the Release Files

The table below displays metadata about all the released documents. You can also download the spreadsheet as an Excel file (4.7MB).

To view or download a specific document, follow the link in the "Doc Date" column. The files are sorted by NARA Release Date, with the most recent files appearing first. The previous withholding status (i.e., formerly withheld in part or formerly withheld in full) is identified in the “Formerly Withheld Status” column.

Bulk Download of PDF and WAV files

You can access individual files by browsing the webpage above and selecting the link in the "Doc Date" column. You may also download the Excel spreadsheet above, which includes links to all of the files. If you need copies of all PDF and WAV files, you can request a compressed bulk download by emailing bulkdownload@nara.gov with “JFK Bulk Download” in the subject line.</s>More than 3,800 records related to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy have been released today by the National Archives.

Most of the documents were previously released with parts redacted, and 441 have never been released before. Of those that were previously redacted, some have now had the redactions removed.

Among the materials, which include CIA and FBI records, are transcripts and 17 recordings of interviews with Yuri Nosenko, a former KGB agent who defected in 1964 and claimed he was in charge of the KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald when Oswald was in the Soviet Union.

The list of documents released Monday also includes some referring to the investigation into Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in 1968, five years after President Kennedy was killed.

The National Archives has been working toward releasing documents related to Kennedy's death since 1992 when a law was passed to preserve the approximately 5 million pages of records surrounding the investigation.

Most of the millions of pages have already been released or made available to the public. Those released today had previously been withheld in part or in full. Several more batches of records are to be released this fall.

The materials released Monday can be viewed on the National Archives website archives.gov.</s>Conspiracy theorists are going to have a field day.

On Monday, the National Archives released 3,810 documents about the Kennedy assassination, 441 of which had never been shared publicly before. Of the papers that had previously been made available, some feature new information, as a number of redactions have been removed.

Specifically, the records include materials from the FBI and CIA, such as the testimony of KGB defector Yuri Nosenko, who was interviewed about Lee Harvey Oswald's time in the Soviet Union. According to ABC, the documents posted on Monday also include files related to the investigation of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination.

Additional releases will be made throughout the fall. To read the files in full, visit archives.gov.</s>This week, the National Archives released 3,810 documents relating to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy . Out of those documents, 441 have never been seen by the public. Undoubtedly, historians are now rushing to cull through the documents in order to see if there is any new information that sheds light upon the assassination. But despite the fact that this might seem like an exceptional trove of knowledge, it’s really just a taste of what is (finally) approaching on the horizon.

By October of this year, the National Archives is expected to release all its documents pertaining to the assassination of John F. Kennedy . This is because in 1992, the Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act set a 25-year deadline for such documents to be released. But before you get ahead of yourselves, envisioning long-held questions finally being answered, there is one potential catch: President Trump could, in theory, stop the release.

The 1992 Act states that only the sitting president can do so, and only through writing. In order for this to occur, the president must deem the release of such information to be a threat to our national security. Today in The Washington Post , the director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics penned an emphatic opinion piece expressing the importance of these documents actually reaching public record. Here’s hoping that the day will come relatively soon.</s>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.

Each release file is a ZIP file containing copies of the records and a corresponding XLSX spreadsheet with metadata about each file.

To access the files, you will need:
• decompression software such as WinZip to “unzip” the contents
• software such as Adobe Acrobat to view the PDF files
• software such as Windows Media Player to listen to the WAV files
• software such as Microsoft Excel to view the XLSX spreadsheet

Once a file has been unzipped, use the XLSX spreadsheet to understand the content and context of each file.

July 2017 Release – Formerly Withheld in Full – Part 1 of 9 (Zip – 2.0GB)

July 2017 Release – Formerly Withheld in Full – Part 2 of 9 (Zip – 1.9GB)

July 2017 Release – Formerly Withheld in Full – Part 3 of 9 (Zip – 814MB)

July 2017 Release – Formerly Withheld in Full – Part 4 of 9 (Zip – 1.6GB)

July 2017 Release – Formerly Withheld in Full – Part 5 of 9 (Zip – 2.3GB)

July 2017 Release – Formerly Withheld in Full – Part 6 of 9 (Zip – 2.1GB)

July 2017 Release – Formerly Withheld in Full – Part 7 of 9 (Zip – 2.3GB)

July 2017 Release – Formerly Withheld in Full – Part 8 of 9 (Zip – 1.9GB)

July 2017 Release – Formerly Withheld in Full – Part 9 of 9 (Zip – 1.8GB)</s>During his five-year tenure as President, Pranab Mukherjee withheld assent to 18 state legislation, many of them overlapping with central Acts, according to data available with the Ministry of Home Affairs (MHA). But newly sworn-in President Ram Nath Kovind won’t have any pending mercy pleas as Mukherjee, during his tenure, rejected 30 mercy petitions, including that of terror convicts Yakub Memon, Ajmal Kasab and Afzal Guru. Records also reveal that 15 state Bills were returned by the President’s Secretariat “with a message” to the Assembly concerned, suggesting changes.

Under Article 111 of the Constitution, while considering the Bills, the President shall declare either that he assents to the Bill, or that he withholds assent or return the Bill if it is not a Money Bill with a message requesting the House to reconsider it. Among the Bills which the President’s secretariat withheld assent to are the Protection of Manipur People Bill, 2015. The Bill cleared by the then Congress government in the state was withheld on the advice of the Centre. Similarly, the Sikkim Promotion of Local Employment Bill, which aims to put an obligation on the private sector operating in the state to provide 95 per cent employment to locals, was also withheld.

The Bills for which assent was withheld also include the Delhi government’s Code of Criminal Procedure (Delhi Amendment) Bill 2015 and the Delhi Member of Legislative Assembly (removal of disqualification) (amendment) Bill, said officials. Among the Bills which were returned to Assembly by Mukherjee is Delhi (Right of Citizen to Time Bound Delivery of Services) Amendment Bill 2015.

Interestingly, a Bill from Bihar, The Sugarcane (Regulation) of Supply and Purchase Amendment Bill, which was approved by President Kovind as Governor, was returned by Mukherjee “with a message” on January 5, 2017, according to the Home Ministry. Another Bill from Bihar for which Mukherjee withheld assent was the Code of Criminal Procedure (Bihar Amendment) Bill, 2011. Out of the 18 Bills for which assent was withheld, six were from NDA-ruled states, including the Stamp Bill from Madhya Pradesh and the Criminal Law (Madhya Pradesh Amendment) Bill, 2014.

For all the latest India News, download Indian Express App</s>The National Archives on Monday made public over 400 previously unreleased documents related to the CIA and FBI's investigation of the assassination of President John F. Kennedy.

Among the 441 materials released include 17 audio files of interviews of Yuri Nosenko, a KGB officer who defected to the United States in January 1964. Nosenko claimed to be the officer in charge of the KGB file on Lee Harvey Oswald during Oswald's time in the Soviet Union.

Other documents released include items related to the probe of Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination who was murdered five years after President Kennedy was killed, in 1968.

A 1992 law requires that the National Archives to preserve the approximately 5 million pages of records surrounding the investigation. Most of the records have been available to the public since the late 1990s.

Click for more from The Washington Examiner.</s>Nearly 4,000 previously withheld or censored documents about the 1963 assassination of US President John F. Kennedy have been released by the National Archives in Washington DC.The trove of 3,810 documents and 17 audio files was released on the US National Archives website Monday. It includes information collected by the FBI and CIA in the aftermath of the president's shooting in Dallas, Texas.Among the release are recordings of KGB defector Yury Nosenko, who was interviewed in 1964 about assassin Lee Harvey Oswald's time in the Soviet Union, the National Archives said.Of the newly released documents, some 441 have never been allowed in the public domain, while the remaining files had been partially redacted.Kennedy was gunned down while traveling in a motorcade through Dallas on November 22, 1963.The shocking assassination was filmed by an amateur cameraman, Abraham Zapruder, and shows the moment the president was shot in the neck and head.It was later determined by the Warren Commission that former US Marine Lee Harvey Oswald fired the fatal bullets from a position in the Texas School Book Depository.As he was being transferred from a Dallas police station, Oswald was gunned down by nightclub owner Jack Ruby. The shooting was just two days after the president's assassination.The assassination has spawned countless conspiracy theories because of all of the seemingly strange coincidences, including the killing of Oswald and the secrecy surrounding the work of the Warren Commission.The most popular of these theories is perhaps the idea that there was a second shooter, who shot Kennedy from a nearby grassy knoll.Some think he was killed by disgruntled CIA agents, while others subscribe to the belief that he was killed at the behest of Vice President Lyndon B. Johnson.
Documents that were previously sealed and withheld from the public pertaining to the John F. Kennedy assassination are released.