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• Originally published 04/11/2018

  Researcher who stole 300 WWII dog tags from National Archives sentenced to year in prison

  He said he sold the relics partly to pay for an addiction to collecting war memorabilia and to acquire a collection for a museum he dreamed of running one day.

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• Originally published 01/12/2018

  Historian Pleads Guilty to Theft of Government Records from the National Archives

  Antonin DeHays, age 33, sold some of the tags on eBay.

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• Originally published 12/18/2017

  Much Ado About Nothing (Re: JFK Conspiracy Theories)

  Max Holland

  Almost two-thirds of Americans believe there was a wider conspiracy to kill Jack Kennedy. They're wrong.

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• Originally published 11/20/2017

  The JFK assassination files lead back to Seattle

  A University of Washington professor says that one of the doctors who worked on JFK’s body admitted that one shot was from the front not behind him. But that's not what the doctor told Gerald Posner.

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• Originally published 11/14/2017

  Why the Public Stopped Believing the Government about JFK’s Murder

  Steven M. Gillon

  It’s likely that we will never know with any certainty why Oswald killed JFK, but we should have been informed that he did it in part to win favor with Cuba and the USSR. 

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• Originally published 11/06/2017

  JFK files say rumors of CIA link to Oswald ‘unfounded’

  A 1975 CIA memo says a thorough search of agency records in and outside the United States was conducted to determine whether Oswald had been used by the agency or connected with it in "any conceivable way." The memo said the search came up empty.

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• Originally published 10/30/2017

  Scraping the bottom of the barrel

  Dale K. Myers

  The latest JFK assassination files leave the media scrambling for something - anything - newsworthy.

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• Originally published 10/30/2017

  The One Thing All Americans Agree On: JFK Conspiracy

  The latest numbers from Gallup, from a 2013 survey taken to mark the 50th anniversary of the event, showed 61% of Americans believed the assassination was a conspiracy, while 30% believed Oswald acted alone.

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• Originally published 10/27/2017

  Good History Takes Time, So Be Patient With the New JFK Documents

  There are unlikely to be any bombshells, and it’ll be months or years before historians can draw conclusions from the new files.

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• Originally published 10/26/2017

  Trump delays release of some JFK assassination documents, bowing to national security concerns

  The CIA has until March to say why certain documents need to be withheld.  

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• Originally published 10/26/2017

  How to Read the JFK Assassination Files

  The government is releasing thousands of long-secret files on Kennedy’s murder. Here are some tips for making sense of all the code names, redactions and confusing jargon.

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• Originally published 10/23/2017

  What’s inside the secret JFK assassination files?

  Secret government documents to be released this week likely contain new details about what the CIA knew about Lee Harvey Oswald before he murdered President John F. Kennedy, assassination experts say.

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• Originally published 10/23/2017

  Trump Likely to Block Release of Some JFK Files

  If the decision holds, it could contribute to the belief that the government has something to hide.

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• Originally published 10/17/2017

  The JFK Document Dump Could Be a Fiasco Say These Two Scholars

  Philip Shenon and Larry J. Sabato

  Later this month, the National Archives is set to release thousands of documents about John F. Kennedy’s assassination. It’s likely to fuel conspiracy theorists for years.

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• Originally published 05/07/2015

  National Archives exhibit examines America’s history through the lens of a cocktail glass

  It’s no bartender’s secret that throughout history, America has had a rocky relationship with alcohol. Now, you can stumble through that history at the National Archives’ latest exhibit, “Spirited Republic.”

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• Originally published 12/16/2014

  France Confronts an Ignoble Chapter

  In Paris, an exhibition at the National Archives looks at French people who were genuine supporters of the Nazis during World War II.

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• Originally published 03/12/2014

  National Archives Will Shutter 3 Facilities

  Archives in Anchorage, Fort Worth, and Philadelphia will be closed.

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• Originally published 12/17/2013

  A New Preamble Before the Big Show

  ‘Records of Rights’ at the National Archives.

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• Originally published 07/14/2013

  Ray Begovich: How I Found Rare Footage of FDR in a Wheelchair

  David Austin Walsh

  Ray Begovich, a journalism professor at Franklin College in Franklin, Indiana, has announced that he has discovered an eight-second clip of FDR being pushed in his wheelchair aboard the cruiser U.S.S. Baltimore in July 1944.

• Originally published 05/14/2013

  NARA returns Landau docs

  BALTIMORE — FBI and National Archive officials are returning to their rightful owners more than 10,000 important historical documents seized during a massive theft investigation involving a well-known collector of presidential memorabilia.Barry Landau and assistant Jason Savedoff were caught stealing documents from the Maryland Historical Society almost two years ago. An investigation led authorities to a cache of thousands of stolen documents in Landau’s New York City apartment, including some containing a who’s who of American and international history. Both men pleaded guilty to their crimes and are serving prison sentences.Now, officials are returning the documents to 24 identified victims nationwide, including university libraries and historical societies in New York, Connecticut, Maryland, and Pennsylvania. On Monday, they returned 21 items to the Maryland Historical Society in Baltimore....