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John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection
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The JFK Assassination Records Collection

There are several possible ways to research our collections online:

President Kennedy. Portrait distributed by the White House, 1961-1963.
President Kennedy. Portrait distributed by the White House, 1961-1963.
JFK Library (Boston, MA).
  • Search ARC for 194 Digitized Assassination Collection Documents and Images.
    The digitized documents are from the Joint Chiefs of Staff and Office of the Secretary of the Army, and relate primarily to Vietnam and Cuba. The digitized images are of well known artifacts collected by the Warren Commission, such as:
    • various bullet fragments
    • Oswald's rifle, revolver and clothing
    • the windshield of the President's limousine
    • the camera belonging to Abraham Zapruder that produced the famous moving images of the assassinations
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