FBI Field Office Subfiles Volume 19-21, 1968-1969
Scope and Contents
Copies of documents obtained from the FBI through the Freedom of Information Act include the contents of all field files associated with the investigation, an alphabetically-arranged collection of 1,651 witness interviews, and reprints of photographs contained with Subfile X-1. The code name for the investigation, which appears on many documents, was KENSALT. The names of Special Agents and other information deemed to be private, was redacted (blacked-out) by the FBI before the documents were released to the University of Massachusetts Dartmouth between 1984 and 1986.
Contents include: Field Files (Volumes 1-49), 19 manuscript boxes
These field files, arranged by volume number, are further divided into lettered
Sub files (A-Z) with accompanying exhibits at the end of each volume.
Subfiles X-1 though X-8 (Volumes 1-21), 32 slipcased 3-ring binders
There is a table of contents and name index for each Subfile located at the beginning
of each. A complete index and table of contents for X-1 through X-8 is also available
in Index # 2.
Witness Interviews (1,651), 39 manuscript boxes.
Duplicates of witness interviews filed within the Field and Sub files.
Here arranged (by the FBI) alphabetically by name of interviewee. Interviewees were
assigned identification numbers in sequence with the alphabetical arrangement.
Newsclippings collected by the FBI, 1968-1969; Photographs (reprints obtained from
the FBI and LAPD; the originals were filed with the FBI Subfiles.
Dates
- Other: 1968-1969
Conditions Governing Access
no known restrictions.
Extent
From the Collection: 64.7 Linear Feet (155 boxes)
Language of Materials
From the Collection: English
Creator
- From the Collection: Melanson, Philip H. (Compiler, Person)
- From the Collection: Castellano, Lillian (Person)
- From the Collection: Nelson, Floyd B. (Person)
- From the Collection: Assassination Truth Committee (Organization)
- From the Collection: Public prosecutors. Los Angeles (Organization)
- From the Collection: Los Angeles (Calif.). Police Department. Special Unit Senator (Organization)
- From the Collection: United States. Federal Bureau of Investigation (Organization)
Repository Details
Part of the Claire T. Carney Library Archives and Special Collections, University of Massachusetts Dartmouth Repository