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# The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection

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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.

 

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## Released Files

                                - JFK 2023 Release
                                - JFK 2022 Release
                                - JFK 2021 Release
                                - JFK 2018 Release
                                - JFK 2017 Release

## Reports

                                - Warren Commission
                                - House Select Committee
                                - Assassination Records Review Board
                                - Autopsy Report

## Finding Aids

                                - JFK Assassination Collection Reference System
                                - Folder Title Lists
                                - Collection Register - Series Titles
                                - Federal Records Guide
                                - FBI Case Files Arranged by Surnames

## About the Records

                                - Background
                                - Press Releases
                                - FAQs

 

## Search the National Archives Catalog

                                - Numbered Exhibits
                                - Named Exhibits
                                - Photos of Assassination Artifacts
                                - JFK Key Persons

 

## Contact Us

Textual Record Reference Div.               National Archives              8601 Adelphi Road, Room 2400              College Park, MD  20740              Phone: 301-837-3510              Email: archives2reference@nara.gov

 

## What's New Online?

                    - Release of 21 documents  on August 24, 2023
                    - Release of 1,103 documents  on June 27, 2023
                    - Release of 290 documents  on June 13, 2023
                    - Release of 502 documents  on May 11, 2023
                    - Release of 355 documents  on April 27, 2023
                    - Release of 422 documents  on April 13, 2023
                    - Release of 13,173 documents  on December 15, 2022,  See also press release
                    - Release of 1,491 documents  on December 15, 2021,  See also press release
                    - Release of 18,731 documents  on April 26, 2018,  See also press release
                    - Release of 3,539 documents  on December 15, 2017,  See also press release
                    - Release of 10,744 documents  on November 17, 2017,  See also press release
                    - Release of 13,213 documents  on November 9, 2017,  See also press release
                    - Release of 676 documents  on November 3, 2017,  See also press release
                    - Release of 2,891 documents  on October 26, 2017,  See also press release   
                    - Release of 3,810 documents  on July 24, 2017,   See also press release  
                    - Records Relating to Key Persons

## Online Highlights

                    - Califano Papers
                    - Cuba and Operation Mongoose Records
                    - Photos from Warren Commission exhibits
                    - Warren Commission Report
                    - Eyewitness exhibit  with Lady Bird Johnson's diary on the assassination

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