Month: April 2012

Records Relating to Civil Disturbances, 1968

by US National Archives, posted in New Openings

  Records Relating to Civil Disturbances, 1968 (RG 319 A1 1695; NND 57082; 1 box) By Dr. Trichita Chestnut Forty-four years ago on April 4, 1968, civil rights leader Dr. Martin Luther King, Jr. was assassinated as he stood on the balcony of the Lorraine Hotel in Memphis, TN. Despite appeals for peace, race riots … Continue reading Records Relating to Civil Disturbances, 1968

Cuban Missile Crisis

by US National Archives, posted in Special Projects

By Ms. Jenny Namsiriwan Crabb The National Archives has numerous gems in its collection.  We are discovering more of them as we continue our work in the National Declassification Center.  I discovered one such gem as I was working with a project regarding the Cuban Missile Crisis in February 2012.  The collection in its entirety … Continue reading Cuban Missile Crisis