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  1. An Act to provide for the expeditious disclosure of records relevant to the assassination of President John F. Kennedy. The President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992, or the JFK Records Act, is a public law passed by the United States Congress, effective October 26, 1992. [1] It directed the National Archives and ...

    • October 26, 1992; 30 years ago
    • JFK Records Act
  2. Apr 4, 2024 · Ask it on HistoryHub! 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).

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  4. Dec 20, 2021 · While NARA is publishing an additional 1,491 documents in full on December 15, 2021, there are approximately 515 documents that remain withheld pursuant to sections 10 and 11 of the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act (JFK Act) and are not subject to the 25-year disclosure requirements and the President’s certification to ...

  5. Aug 15, 2016 · About JFK Assassination Records Collection. In 1992, the National Archives and Records Administration established the John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection pursuant to Public Law 102-526. The Collection contains more than 4 1/2 million pages of assassination-related records, photographs, motion pictures, sound recordings and artifacts.

  6. Aug 13, 2014 · The new statute, entitled the "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act of 1992," Pub. L. No. 102-526, 106 Stat. 3443 (to be codified at 44 U.S.C. § 2107 note), was passed by Congress last year in the midst of heightened public interest in the Kennedy assassination after release of the controversial film "JFK." It became ...

  7. Apr 16, 2024 · In 1992, Congress passed the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act, which mandated that materials related to John F. Kennedy’s killing be housed in a single collection in the National Archives and Records Administration and that all records be publicly disclosed by 2017. Yet some records remain sealed.

  8. Apr 19, 2024 · The JFK Act would require six government departments to publicly release any remaining unreleased documents relevant to the Kennedy assassination, in unredacted form. They would have to comply within 30 days of the bill’s potential enactment. The bill would apply to the National Archives, IRS, CIA, FBI, Defense Department, and State Department.