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license: mit |
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language: |
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- en |
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- es |
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- ru |
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- bg |
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- sv |
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- fi |
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tags: |
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- history |
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- jfk |
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- archives |
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- government |
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- text |
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- assassinations |
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pretty_name: JFK Files Text |
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size_categories: |
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- 10K<n<100K |
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task_categories: |
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- question-answering |
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- text-classification |
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- translation |
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- summarization |
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- text-generation |
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--- |
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# National Archives JFK Files Text Dataset |
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This dataset contains extracted text from the JFK assassination records released by the [National Archives.](https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk) The dataset preserves the original directory structure from archive.gov while providing significant performance and storage benefits for data analysis, AI applications, and large-scale processing. |
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## Dataset Structure |
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The dataset is structured with the following columns: |
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| Column | Description | |
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| `year` | The release year of the document (e.g., 2017, 2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025) | |
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| `path` | The relative path to the file, mirroring the archives.gov structure (e.g., `/releases/2022`) | |
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| `filename` | The original filename (e.g., `docid-32244106.md`) | |
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| `record_number` | NARA record number | |
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| `nara_release_date` | NARA release date | |
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| `formerly_withheld` | NARA formerly withheld reason | |
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| `agency` | Agency | |
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| `document_date` | Document date | |
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| `document_type` | Document type | |
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| `file_number` | NARA file number | |
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| `to_name` | To name | |
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| `from_name` | From name | |
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| `title` | Title | |
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| `number_of_pages` | Document number of pages | |
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| `originator` | Originator | |
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| `record_series` | Record series | |
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| `review_date` | NARA review date | |
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| `comments` | Comments | |
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| `pages_released`| Pages released | |
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| `content` | The full text content of the document | |
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## Path Organization |
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The path column preserves the original organizational structure: |
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- /releases - Files from the 2017 release |
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- /releases/additional - Additional files from the 2017 release |
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- /releases/2018 - Files from the 2018 release |
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- /releases/2021 - Files from the 2021 release |
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- /releases/2022 - Files from the 2022 release |
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- /releases/2023 - Files from the 2023 release |
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- /releases/2023/08 - Files from August 2023 subset |
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- /releases/2025/0318 - Files the 2025 release |
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## Current Status |
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| Release Year | Status | Extraction Method | Files Extracted | Size | Total Files Listed | |
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| 2025 | ✅ Complete | Apple Vision OCR | 2,566 | 8.12GB | 2,566 | |
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| 2023 | ✅ Complete | Apple Vision OCR | 2,693 | 6.20GB | 2,693 | |
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| 2022 | ✅ Complete | Apple Vision OCR | 13,199 | 14.15GB | 13,199 | |
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| 2021 | ✅ Complete | Apple Vision OCR | 1,484 | 1.36GB | 1,484 | |
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| 2017-2018 | ✅ Complete | Apple Vision OCR | 53,526| 57.18GB | 53,547 | |
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Note: 34 files in the 2022 release and 5 files in the 2021 release tie to multiple record numbers listed in the .xlsx files which have more rows than unique file names (13,263 and 1,491 resptively). The [2017-2018 release xlsx file](https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/national-archives-jfk-assassination-records-2017-2018-release.xlsx) contains 6 bad links, but [the 2017-2018 release website](https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2017-2018) lists two files not included in the xlsx in the /additional path. The 2017-2018 release all contains 19 audio files (17 .wav, 2 .mp3). Transcripts of the two .mp3 files are included. The 17 .wav files are very poor quailty with lots of blank space (they may be added later). |
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### Archive Statistics |
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- Total archive size: 87 GB |
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- Total files: 73,485 |
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- Extracted text in markdown format available on [GitHub](https://github.com/noops888/jfk-files-text/) |
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## WebUI |
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A simple WebUI to query to the entire archive using the DeepSeek R1 Distill Llama 70B LLM is available at [https://jfkfiles.app.](https://jefkfiles.app) |
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## Acknowledgments |
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- [The National Archives](https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk) for providing the JFK assassination records |
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- Contributors to the various open-source tools used in this project |
