Back in the beginning of March,I talked about records relating to the JFK assassination that were kept by the Dallas DA at the time,Henry Wade,and not made available to the public. Somehow I missed the next twist to this story. Turns out that the DA’s office provided digital copies of the documents to the Dallas Morning News,which in turn,added those (apparently unsorted/non-indexed) documents to their website and invited readers to pour over them and post in their forums in a sort of treasure hunt.
I haven’t gone through the document pdfs myself,but according to several of the articles,many of the documents cited by the current DA as possibly new material were already included in the Warren Report files (accessible through NARA here). I’m much more interested in the way that the documents were provided and displayed online,and the implications of the way that they can/are accessed and used by readers of the paper.
Some related links:
My original post,which asked some questions about provenance and preservation:Dallas DA documents to be donated- but where?
Dallas Morning News story announcing the digitized groups of records and providing links to the pdf’s:Exclusive:Help us examine the lost JFK files
Dallas Morning News forum to discuss the documents
Related articles from the Dallas Morning News:Newly discovered JFK assassination items revealed,Dallas County DA’s office finds cache of JFK memorabilia,When DA spoke of JFK,he misspoke for Dallas