This is a search page to explore JFK files released by the National Archives, March 18-20, 2025:
The NA files are mostly unsearchable PDFs of scanned images. Here they've been converted by optical character recognition (OCR) to text as far as possible to enable searching for keywords within the documents. The OCR isn't perfect, as some of the scanned images are of poor quality, but good enough to pick up most references.
Phrases (e.g., "operation mongoose", "robert kennedy") can be searched for by enclosing the words in quotes.
Search results show document title and other metadata when available, and a link to the OCR'ed document. Within a PDF viewer, searches for specific text in the OCR'ed documents can be done with ctrl-f.
Have fun exploring the files!
Joe Knapp
jmknapp@gmail.com
March 21, 2025