By SDCN Staff
Washington, D.C.–The National Archives Friday launched a new website landing page that provides access to President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection.
The webpage will host already-released documents and items within the collection and will be the future home of papers and items that will be released.
It was created in response to Executive Order 14176, titled “Declassification of Records Concerning the Assassinations of President John F. Kennedy, Senator Robert F. Kennedy, and the Reverend Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr,” which was issued by President Donald Trump on January 23.
The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection comprises over six million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings, and artifacts. The vast majority of this collection has been declassified and is available to the public either online or in person at the National Archives at College Park, Maryland.
The National Archives began a concerted effort to digitize all released records in the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Collection in 2023. Those efforts are ongoing and have been prioritized since the issuance of Executive Order 14176. The National Archives has digitized over 700,000 pages of records in the collection.
Those records within this collection that are already open but may not yet be digitized are available for the public to access at the National Archives facility in College Park, Maryland. Information on how to access these records in person is given on the webpage.
The National Archives is ready to receive and process any further declassification decisions made by President Trump or by other agencies of the United States Government.
All released records in the collection will be made available online through the National Archives Catalog on an ongoing, rolling basis following each release determination.
The webpage can be accessed at www.archives.gov/jfk.
