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Artifact Found in Move: 'Dude, You Know What You Have Here?'

Lost historic log book from Pearl Harbor is back with National Archives after pair finds it while unpacking

(Newser) - A long-missing log book from the erstwhile Navy Yard Pearl Harbor that covered 16 months before and after the December 1941 attack by Japan in World War II is back with the National Archives, after a California couple found it among other books during a move. "Dude—you know...

Famed Art Sleuth Notches Another Big Find

Documents stolen from the National Archives in The Hague are recovered

(Newser) - Dutch art detective Arthur Brand, often referred to as the "Indiana Jones of the Art World," has added another major recovery to his list: a trove of centuries-old documents stolen from the National Archives in The Hague in 2015. The cache includes rare items from the 15th...

Don't Expect Those MLK Files Anytime Soon

Judge seeks careful review amid pushback from Dr. King's allies

(Newser) - A federal judge in Washington has signaled he may accelerate the release of documents tied to Dr. Martin Luther King Jr.'s assassination in response to President Trump's executive order . But during a Wednesday hearing, Judge Richard Leon made clear that any move would be a slow...

What Sleuths Are Seeking in Newly Released JFK Files
What Sleuths Are Seeking
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Mar 19, 2025 7:58 AM CDT

What Sleuths Are Seeking in Newly Released JFK Files

Few bombshells expected, but new details on Oswald's movements may emerge

(Newser) - The government released a new trove of documents related to the assassination of John F. Kennedy on Tuesday night. The gist of coverage Wednesday morning: It's going to take a while to get through them, and bombshells are unlikely.
  • Unlikely: Major revelations changing the official narrative that Lee Harvey
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Trump Fires Archivist, Though She Wasn't in Documents Fight
Trump Fires Nation's Archivist
Feb 8, 2025 2:15 PM CST

Trump Fires Nation's Archivist

Colleen Shogan held what had been an apolitical role supervising an independent agency

(Newser) - The Trump administration announced Friday night that it has fired Archivist of the United States Colleen Shogan, who ran the independent agency charged with preserving and providing access to federal government records. The National Archives and Records Administration was involved in trying to recover documents President Trump took home with...

If You Have This 'Superpower,' National Archives Needs You

Citizen volunteers who can read cursive are being sought to transcribe historical documents

(Newser) - History nerds, have we got a volunteer gig for you—especially if you're well versed in cursive writing. The National Archives is on the hunt for citizen archivists to review and transcribe at least two centuries' worth of historical US documents that are handwritten in the fading art of...

Take Another Look, Archives Asks Former Presidents

Letter asks administrations dating to Reagan's to recheck for classified records

(Newser) - The National Archives has asked former US presidents and vice presidents to recheck their personal records for any classified documents they might inadvertently have kept, following the discovery of such records in the possession of former President Donald Trump, President Biden and former Vice President Mike Pence . The Archives sent...

Other Presidents Sound All-Clear on Classified Records

Obama, Clinton staffs say documents were turned over to National Archives

(Newser) - With out-of-place classified documents now unearthed in several states and offices, a couple of former presidents made clear Wednesday that there's nothing to find in their garages or studies. The staffs of former Presidents Barack Obama and Bill Clinton told the Hill on Wednesday that all classified material in...

Classified Documents Found in Biden's Former Office

Papers were turned over to National Archives after discovery, president's counsel says

(Newser) - Federal officials are reviewing approximately 10 classified documents that were discovered in an office President Biden had at a Washington think tank. The president's personal lawyers spotted the papers while packing up files to move Biden out of the office at the Penn Biden Center for Diplomacy and Global...

Suit: Biden Illegally Withholding JFK Assassination Files

'The law requires the records be released' so 'what are they hiding?' asks Robert Kennedy Jr.

(Newser) - Some of the most sensitive government records related to the 1963 assassination of President John F. Kennedy are due to be released on Dec. 15 . But that's not soon enough for the Mary Ferrell Foundation, the nation's largest online source of JFK assassination records, which argues the current...

National Archivist: We Still Don't Have Trump Staff Emails

Letter to House panel says agency will confer with Justice Department

(Newser) - The National Archives and Records Administration has informed lawmakers that a number of electronic communications from Trump White House staffers remain missing, nearly two years after the administration was required to turn them over. The nation's record-keeping agency, in a letter Friday to the House Committee on Oversight and...

Aides Told National Archives Trump Only Had News Clippings

Former White House lawyer said his information came from Mark Meadows

(Newser) - Former President Donald Trump's team assured National Archives officials a year ago that there were no classified or even sensitive documents at Mar-a-Lago—just a dozen boxes of news clippings. The claim was made by a former White House lawyer, Pat Philbin, in a phone call with Archives lawyer...

Report Puts a Number on Trump's Classified Documents

'New York Times' says government has retrieved more than 300 in all

(Newser) - The latest New York Times story about the FBI's Mar-a-Lago raid revolves around a key number: 300. As in, that's how many classified documents the government has retrieved in total from former President Trump since he left office. The first was a batch of 150 recovered by the...

National Archives Fact-Checks Trump on Obama Documents

Agency assures that it has all Obama records

(Newser) - Former President Donald Trump ran into an obstacle to his what-about deflection posted on social media while the FBI looks over documents it removed from his home, but it didn't slow him down. "President Barack Hussein Obama kept 33 million pages of documents, much of them classified,"...

National Archives Reveals More on 15 Boxes Found at Mar-a-Lago

NARA: Former President Trump brought classified info with him to private Fla. estate when he left WH

(Newser) - The 15 or so boxes of administration materials that former President Trump took with him to Mar-a-Lago when he left the White House had more than routine to-do lists inside. On Friday, the National Archives and Records Administration confirmed that classified records were found in those boxes, and that it'...

Biden Stymies Trump's Move to Keep Visitor Logs Private

President directs National Archives to release logs to House panel investigating Jan. 6

(Newser) - Donald Trump has been trying to keep various records out of the hands of the House committee investigating the Jan. 6 attack, but a new move from President Biden has put a wrench in one of those efforts. The New York Times reports that Biden has rejected Trump's assertion...

Report: Archives Wants DoJ to Investigate Trump Records

Former president is accused of 'flagrant' violations of federal records law

(Newser) - Update: Former President Trump's apparent mishandling of his administration's records could be the subject of a federal investigation. Sources tell the Washington Post that the National Archives has asked the Justice Department to look into whether federal law was violated. Archives officials say 15 boxes of Trump administration...

Jan. 6 Panel Will Be Given Pence Records

Trump is told executive privilege doesn't prevent release

(Newser) - The National Archives will release records from former Vice President Mike Pence to the House committee investigating the attack on the Capitol. White House counsel Dana Remus delivered the instruction in a letter Tuesday, the Hill reports. Former President Donald Trump had written Jan. 18 to oppose the release, saying...

There's a Weird Problem With Some of Trump's Papers

They had to be taped back together after the former president tore them up

(Newser) - Some of Donald Trump's presidential papers being examined by a House panel are harder to read than others for an odd reason: They had to be taped back together after being torn into tiny pieces by the then-president. The National Archives confirmed the quirk on Monday, reports CNN . The...

Biden Puts Off Release of JFK Files

National archivist needs more time, White House says

(Newser) - Secret files concerning the assassination of President John F. Kennedy will not be released to the public by next week after all. The national archivist asked for more time to review them, White House officials announced, blaming the delay in part on the pandemic, CBS reports. President Biden issued a...

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