1,000,000 Pages
The Mary Ferrell Foundation's collection of scanned documents on the political assassinations of the 1960s has now passed the one million page mark.
The bulk of these are reports, transcripts, and declassified files on the JFK assassination, the majority of them declassified in the 1990s under the JFK Records Act. These include voluminous collections from federal agencies including the CIA and FBI, as well as records of the Warren Commission, Church Committee, House Select Committee on Assassinations, and other investigations.
Nearly 100,000 of these pages relate to the assassinations of Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. and Robert F. Kennedy.
Most of these government records were obtained as the result of decades of legal battles, using the Freedom of Information Act. This effort culminated in the passage of the JFK Records Act, under which the Assassination Records Review Board declassified large numbers of records. The Mary Ferrell Foundation salutes the dedication of Jim Lesar, Harold Weisberg, Mark Allen, Gary Shaw, and many others who engaged in the tireless pursuit of truth.
Roughly 85% of these files were provided to the MFF courtesy of the Assassination Archives and Research Center (AARC), which obtained them as a result of Freedom-of-Information Act lawsuits. Other records come from History Matters, the National Archives, and the private collection of Mary Ferrell and others.
All pages are open for browsing; a membership is required for full use of the website's sophisticated search engine. For more information, see the About the Archive page and a page of Frequently Asked Questions.
The War Conspiracy
The Mary Ferrell Foundation is publishing a major update of Peter Dale Scott's classic The War Conspiracy. Available for pre-order now at the MFF Store, this book will be shipping on August 5.
The original 1972 book detailed the subterfuge by which the Indochina war was escalated, through a series of seemingly accidental bombings, aggressive operations in the field, suspicious intelligence failures and the like.
Fully updated for 2008 throughout, this new edition, subtitled JFK, 9/11, and the Deep Politics of War, also features two lengthy additional chapters. The first is The Kennedy Assassination and the Vietnam War, an essay written in 1971 about the false "continuity" in Vietnam policy after JFK's assassination. The second, JFK, 9/11 and War: Recurring Patterns in America's Deep Events, is a brand-new essay which examines the many parallels between the 1963 assassination and the attacks of September 11, 2001.
A resource page for The War Conspiracy features information about the book, along with links to online essays and interviews.
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