NATIONAL ARCHIVES OF THE UNITED STATES for President" and "Ride With Wallace"; and of speeches, songs, interviews, and radio programs concerning the Ku Klux Klan and related activities. Included are tapes relating to the San Francisco State College disturbances. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS I. Records: Proceedings of the Mass persons having the written permission of an authorized member of the White House staff. Specified by: The Commission. II. Records: The following files among the records of the Chicago and Miami Study Teams: Chicago, A-201 (arrest records); Miami, No. 4 (homicide details) and Nos. 8, 9, and 20 (arrest records). Restrictions: For a period of 15 years beginning June 10, 1969, access to these records is limited to persons having the written permission of an authorized member of the White House staff. Specified by: The Commission. RECORDS OF THE PRESIDENT'S COMMISSION ON THE The President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy, commonly called the Warren Commission, was appointed November 29, 1963, by Executive Order 11130. Chief Justice Earl Warren was appointed Chairman. The President directed the Commission to evaluate all facts and circumstances surrounding the assassination and the subsequent killing of the alleged assassin, Lee Harvey Oswald, by Jack Ruby, and to report its findings and conclusions to him. The Commission submitted its report September 24, 1964. See Report of the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (1 vol., 1964), and Investigation of the Assassination of President John F. Kennedy: Hearings Before the President's Commission on the Assassination of President Kennedy (26 vols., 1964). There are 363 cubic feet of records dated between 1963 and 1964, with some records of earlier dates, in this record group. RECORDS. 1963-64. 434 lin. ft. These include minutes of Commission and staff meetings; agenda, proceedings, transcripts of testimony, depositions, and affidavits; correspondence and memorandums; summary reports relating to the assassination and to Oswald, prepared by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, and the Department of State; investigative reports and other basic source materials submitted by the Federal Bureau of Investigation, the Secret Service, the Central Intelligence Agency, other Federal agencies, State authorities, and private citizens; exhibits (1 roll of microfilm) and evidence; and newspapers and press clippings. Also photographs (9,800 items) used in publishing the report of the Commission, photographs (1,000 items, including 170 color transparencies), motion pictures (15 reels), and sound recordings (400 items). There are also records of the interrogation and trial of Jack Ruby. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS Records: Certain records of the following types: records withheld from disclosure by specific statutes, such as income tax returns; records related to national security; records withheld as part of investigatory files compiled for law enforcement purposes, the public disclosure of which would be detrimental to law enforcement, might reveal confidential sources of information, or would be a source of embarrassment to innocent persons; and personnel and medical records, the disclosure of which would constitute a clearly unwarranted invasion of personal privacy. Restrictions: These records are withheld from research except as authorized by the originating agency. Specified by: Department of Justice and other agencies that furnished records to the Commission. RECORDS OF THE NATIONAL ADVISORY COMMISSION ON CIVIL DISORDERS (RECORD GROUP 282) The National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders, commonly called the Kerner Commission from the name of its Chairman, Gov. Otto Kerner of Illinois, was appointed by President Johnson under Executive Order 11365 on July 29, 1967. The Commission was instructed to investigate and make recommendations concerning the origins of civil disorders; the development of means to avert or control such disorders and the appropriate role of local, State, and Federal authorities in dealing with them; and any other matters the President might place before it. The Commission's report to the President was published March 1, 1968. See Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), Supplemental Studies for the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), and Meeting the Insurance Crisis of Our Cities: A Report by the President's National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas (1968). There are 219 cubic feet of records dated between 1967 and 1968 in this record group. RECORDS. 1967-68. 263 lin. ft. The Commission's records consist of reading and subject files, correspondence, transcripts and exhibits of hear ings, depositions, questionnaires, studies prepared for the Commission, other studies related in any way to the subject matter of the Commission's investigation, reports and other published works of Federal and non-Federal agencies, congressional resolutions, press releases and clippings, bibliographies, broadcast tapes, and investigative reports prepared by the Commission's Office of Investigation and other Federal agencies. Also included are the records of the Commission's National Advisory Panel on Insurance in Riot-Affected Areas, which consist of program planning records, minutes, correspondence, staff memorandums, proposed legislation, press clippings, completed questionnaires, transcripts of interviews, and material relating to field surveys and research studies of insurance problems. SPECIFIC RESTRICTIONS I. Records: Reports of confidential interviews conducted under an explicit representation of confidentiality, 1967-68. Secondary materials derived from the reports described in the preceding paragraph that either identify or provide a basis for identifying the Commission's confidential informants, 1967-68. Portions of the transcript of Commission hearings containing the testimony of witnesses who requested and received assurance that their testimony would be treated as confidential, 1967-68. Restrictions: These records may not be used by Government or private researchers for a period of 15 years beginning October 29, 1968. Specified by: National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. II. Records: Materials restricted by originating agencies and received by the Commission. Restrictions: These records may not be made available for examination without approval of the originating agency, if extant, or the agency from which they were received. Specified by: National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders. RECORDS OF EXECUTIVE DEPARTMENTS DEPARTMENT OF STATE GENERAL RECORDS OF THE DEPARTMENT OF STATE (RECORD GROUP 59) A Department of Foreign Affairs, whose Secretary was empowered to commission and direct the activities of U.S. ministers and consuls, negotiate with ministers of foreign states, and conduct any other matters relating to foreign affairs assigned by the President, was established by an act of July 27, 1789. By an act of September 15, 1789, it was designated the Department of State, and its Secretary was given such additional functions as preserving and publishing laws and treaties, keeping the seal of the United States and affixing it to certain documents signed by the President, and serving as custodian of the records of the United States previously held by the Secretary of Congress. Other domestic functions were eventually assigned to the Department, but with the expansion of the Government most of these were passed to other agencies, and the Department has again become concerned almost exclusively with foreign affairs. See Gaillard Hunt, The Department of State of the United States (New Haven, 1914); and Graham H. Stuart, The Department of State (New York, 1949). GENERAL ADMINISTRATIVE These include circulars, regulations, and orders issued by the Secretary and the Diplomatic and Consular Bureaus, 1797-1946, reports of bureau officers, 1790-1911, and miscellaneous records, 1834-1943. DIPLOMATIC CORRESPONDENCE. 1785-1906. 991 lin. ft. These records are for the most part arranged in four main series of letters, generally bound separately for each country. Diplomatic instructions bound in 214 volumes, 1785-1906, are copies of communications to American diplomatic representatives and, for the early years, to consular representatives. They relate to all phases of U.S. foreign relations and the administration of diplomatic posts. Instructions dated between 1785 and 1791 are in a separate volume of "foreign letters" begun during the Confederation period. For the 1791-1833 period there are 13 volumes arranged chronologically without regard to country. These are continued by series of volumes for individual countries or groups of countries, begun at different times, with the earliest in 1829. Before 1870 most volumes of instructions contain a register of contents; thereafter instructions may be found through an eight-volume register that also lists notes to foreign missions. Diplomatic despatches bound into 2,202 volumes, 1789-1906, are communications from American diplomatic representatives, together with enclosures, such as copies of notes received from ministers of foreign states or printed or manuscript material bearing on foreign conditions. They are arranged alphabetically by country and thereunder chronologically. Despatches sent before 1870 are listed in 58 volumes of registers arranged by country or area and thereunder chronologically; thereafter despatches may be found through a 10volume register that also lists notes from foreign missions. Notes to foreign missions bound into 137 volumes, 1793-1906, are copies of communications to foreign legations and embassies in the United States. For the 1793-1810 period there is one volume, including notes to foreign consuls, arranged by country and thereunder chronologically, that contains copies of some notes assembled to replace the original missing volume. The notes for 1810-34 are arranged chronologically for all countries in four volumes, each containing an alphabetical index to names of foreign diplomats. The notes after 1834 are arranged alphabetically by country and thereunder chronologically. Various registers list some of the notes dated before 1870; thereafter notes are entered in the eight-volume register that also lists diplomatic instructions. Notes from foreign missions bound into 871 volumes, 1789-1906, are communications and enclosures received from foreign legations and embassies in the United States. They are arranged alphabetically by country and thereunder chronologically. Various indexes and registers list the notes before 1870; thereafter notes are entered in the 10volume register that also lists diplomatic despatches. There are also four volumes of notes from miscellaneous states, territories, or regimes that had no recognized diplomatic representatives in the United States. Other series of diplomatic correspondence consist of ceremonial letters, including four volumes of communications to foreign sovereigns and heads of state, 1829-77, 24 volumes and unbound papers from heads of state, 1778-1903, and nine volumes of credences, 1789-1906. Records relating to special agents, missions, and commissions employed by the President and the Secretary of State for such functions as the negotiation and ratification of treaties, the collection of information on political conditions and public opinion, and investigations of various kinds are sometimes among the diplomatic instructions and despatches, sometimes filed separately, or are among four volumes of instructions to special missions, 1823-1906, and 56 volumes and unbound papers of despatches from special agents, 1794-1906. CONSULAR CORRESPONDENCE. 1789-1906. 971 lin. ft. These records are primarily arranged in four main series of bound letters. Consular instructions bound into 201 volumes, 1800-1906, are copies of communications to American consular officers and relate to the protection of U.S. citizens, relief of U.S. seamen, commercial matters, and consular administration. They are arranged chronologically without regard to post, except that for the years 1835-74 they are arranged geographically and thereunder chronologically. Each volume of instructions dated before 1833 contains an index of names of addressees, and there are registers for the 1833-1906 period. Consular despatches bound into 3,528 volumes, 17891906, are communications with enclosures from American consular representatives that report on foreign conditions and consular administration. Despatches from each post are arranged |