JFK Assassination Records — 2021 Release

What the 1,484-document count measures

The 1,484 figure is the BlackVaultDocs index total for topic slug jfk-release-2021. Collection name is JFK Assassination Records — 2021 Release. Each row is one indexed file from the 2021 disclosure of the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection. A short transmittal and a long report each add one to docCount when they are separate indexed records.

One thousand four hundred eighty-four is 2.8% of the 52,684 documents in the site-wide index. Among the JFK release-year hubs in this harvest, 1,484 is the smallest docCount. That ranking is a statement about this website’s ingest, not about the historical weight of the 2021 posting and not about how NARA would rank its own batches.

Agency slug is nara. The packet description is a single sentence: files disclosed in 2021 from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection. No file-type list, no cable sub-count, and no NARA IDs appear in the facts. This page does not invent them.

2021 as a posting year among larger JFK slices

The 1,484 rows are not leftover files from the 2017–2018 hub and not a preview of 2022. They are a separate topic slug. Larger JFK posting years in the same index have their own counts; those counts are not repeated here because they are not in this packet. The only volume figures this overlay may cite are 1,484 and 52,684.

The 2.8% share will change only if ingest rebuilds 1,484 or 52,684. It will not change because a researcher reads a 2021 file as more or less important than a 2022 file.

Questions

How many JFK 2021 release documents does BlackVaultDocs index?

BlackVaultDocs indexes 1,484 documents under JFK Assassination Records — 2021 Release. That is 2.8% of the 52,684 documents in the site-wide index. The files were disclosed in 2021 from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection. PDFs remain on the originating archive.

Why is the 2021 JFK hub smaller than later years on this site?

This packet only publishes 1,484 for 2021 and 52,684 for the site-wide index. It does not explain NARA’s posting calendar or compare those figures to later years. The 2.8% share describes catalog volume on BlackVaultDocs. Other release years are separate hubs with their own packets.

What agency is tagged on the 2021 JFK collection?

Agency slug is nara, the National Archives and Records Administration. The description is files disclosed in 2021 from the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection. BlackVaultDocs indexes those public releases; it does not re-host the PDFs. Cite 1,484 as this hub’s index count only.

Does a 1,484-document index mean the 2021 release closed the JFK record?

No. 1,484 is an index count for one posting year as ingested here. The site-wide index holds 52,684 documents across collections. This page does not treat 1,484 as NARA’s complete holdings or as a finding about the assassination. Open the collection hub and the originating archive for the scans.