Assassination Records Review Board

The Assassination Records Review Board was created as a result of an act passed by the US Congress in 1992, entitled the "President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection Act." The Act mandated the gathering and release of all US Government records related to the Assassination of John F. Kennedy. The Act was passed following the public outcry about the assassination after the 1991 premiere of Oliver Stone's film "JFK", which proposed Kennedy assassination theories involving plots to kill the President. The ARRB collected evidence starting in 1992, then produced a final report in 1998.

The Board's work

The ARRB was not enacted to determine who or why the murder was committed but to collect and preserve the evidence for public scrutiny. After the enactment of the federal law that created the ARRB, the Board collected a large amount of documents and took testimony of those who had relevant information of the events. The Committee finished its work in 1998 and in its final report, the ARRB outlined the problems that government secrecy created regarding the murder of President Kennedy. [ [http://www.fas.org/sgp/advisory/arrb98/part03.htm The Problem of Secrecy and the Solution of the JFK Act] ]

During the 1990s it collected the assassination documents which have been slowly released for public scrutiny. [ [http://jfkassassination.net/arrb/index.htm#index Witnesses Before the Assassination Archives Review Board ] ]

Some of the information was gathered by way of testimony from witnesses that had eyewitness knowledge of the events. For example, the Board interviewed the physicians who treated the president's massive head wound at Parkland Hospital in Dallas. [ [http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/arrbpark.htm EXAMINATION BY MR. GUNN: ] ] This was a highly trained team of emergency care physicians, some of whom testified in secret before the Warren Commission. These transcripts have now also has been made public [ [http://jfkassassination.net/russ/testimony/mcclella.htm Testimony Of Dr. Robert Nelson McClelland] ] . Other information consists of a large number of documents from the FBI and CIA that were required to cooperate with the turnover of relevant records held secret by these agencies.

References

External links

* [http://books.google.com/books?vid=ISBN0788177222&id=OibCmEpOqDwC&pg=PP1&lpg=PP1&ots=4R3eU90s8x&dq=%22assassination+records+review+board%22&ie=ISO-8859-1&sig=g4-XlI4BpjHFQ4rJJWgevknVOZY Final Report of the Assassination Records Review Board] , September 1998
* [http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/medical_testimony/contents.htm Medical Testimony Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/medical_interviews/contents.htm Additional Medical Interviews Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/master_med_set/contents.htm Master Set of Medical Exhibits Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/cia_testimony/contents.htm CIA Personnel Testimony Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/arrb/index41.htm Washington D. C. 10-11-94 Persons Testimony Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/arrb/index61.htm Dallas, Texas 11-18-94 Persons Testimony Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/arrb/index1.htm Boston, Massachusetts 3-24-95 Persons Testimony Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/arrb/index21.htm New Orleans, Louisiana 6-28-95 Persons Testimony Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/arrb/index31.htm Los Angeles, California 9-17-96 Persons Testimony Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://mcadams.posc.mu.edu/arrb/index11.htm Washington D. C. 4-2-97 Persons Testimony Before the Assassination Records Review Board]
* [http://history-matters.com/archive/jfk/arrb/staff_memos/contents.htm Staff Memos of the Assassination Records Review Board]