How to Download & View the JFK Files Today
The remaining JFK assassination files are being released today: Thursday, October 26. Viewing these files won’t be too difficult, but it may take some time depending on just how slammed the server is. When early JFK files were released in July, the National Archives’ server was so overwhelmed that many people couldn’t get the files to download at all at first. The files were released around 7 a.m. Eastern in July, but for many the downloads didn’t start working until sometime that afternoon. So if you’re trying to get the downloads to work today and run into some problems, don’t give up.
Read on to learn how to download the files. You can expect them to be released sometime today.
Once released, the documents will most likely be added to the JFK Assassination Records 2017 webpage here. Scroll down to see links to an October 2017 release (all the links currently on the page are for July 2017.) You can also look in the upper right hand corner, under “What’s New,” to see if any new October documents have been added yet.
To view them, you’ll need decompression software, software to read PDF files, software to listen to any WAV files, and software to view spreadsheets.
Here are step-by-step instructions:
Visit the webpage here.
Scroll down until you see the blue hyperlinks labeled October 2017.
Each hyperlink will take you to a .zip folder. This folder will include PDF files and possible .WAV files. It will also contain a spreadsheet that lists each document in the folder, including each document’s agency, document date, title, source, and senders and recipients.
You’ll need decompression software, such as WinZip, to open each .zip folder.
Once you’ve unzipped the file, read the spreadsheet to see the contents of the folder. You’ll need a spreadsheet viewer, such as Microsoft Excel, to read that document.
Once unzipped, the files within each folder can be viewed whenever you want, as long as you have the right software to view the files.
Read more:
https://heavy.com/news/2017/10/how-to-view-read-jfk-files-documents-2017-link/