Assassination Records Review Board
Not to be confused with the Assassination Archives and Research Center
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The Assassination Records Review Board (ARRB) was formed in support of the 1992 JFK Records Act, as an independent agency with the charter of locating and bringing into the national archives materials pertinent to the assassination of President John Kennedy. While the Board's primary focus was on unreleased government documents, it operated under the premise that assassination materials included both public and private materials - regardless of how they were labeled - which described, reported on, or interpreted the activities of persons or events related to the assassination itself as well as to subsequent inquiries.[1] During the 1990s, the ARRB managed the release of millions of pages of formerly-secret records from the FBI, CIA, Warren Commission, House Select Committee on Assassinations, and various other government bodies. It also collected records from private citizens. The ARRB did not re-investigate the JFK assassination, though in its search for records it did conduct interviews of CIA personnel, autopsy participants, and others.[2]