JFK Assassination Archive Question

[quispquake]

Hi all!

This past summer, I found a box of 4000-5000 articles related to the JFK assassination at a yard sale. Someone had literally started cutting articles on November 23rd, and kept it up until 1976. There are articles from dozens of newspapers & magazines here, all in pristine shape (other than the first year or so, every article was cut, and laid on the others, so they are flat, and perfect...a bit of yellowing on newspaper articles, but perfect condition on all magazine articles).

I figure it was probably an elderly person who passed away, and the box ended up in an attic somewhere collecting dust until I saw it...

I was looking at perhaps doing mucho research on the assassination. Unfortunately, I'm realizing I'm never going to have the time to do it. (I'd love to, but there's YEARS of information here...everything from small articles, to multi-page articles, and the entire NY Times with the full Warren Commission report is also included). I have literally already put 50 hours + and I'm barely out of 1963...

So, I'm wondering where I could donate these to that they would come in useful. I'm looking for a museum, or research center especially (i.e. if you're at home and are curious, that's probably not enough reason for me to hand you the box!!!). I've pondered selling them (hey, I'm poor!), but I would be okay with donating them to a center that could use the information. I just don't want them to end up back in an attic...(I owe that to whoever obsessively cut all these out!) And I'm looking for an OPEN MINDED center, not something like
John MacAdams site where he's already made his mind up that Oswald did it...

If any of you cool DU'ers have any ideas, I'd love to hear it!!!

Thanks a lot!

pp23

[MattPinNC]

1. One Word pp23 .....

eBay .. if you've got that much old stuff, I believe you're sitting on some $$. Do some digging on eBay , and see if other/similar stuff has gone. Heck, that AAAAAANNALD magazine got $$ , and that was from the 70's.

Good Luck

[quispquake]

2. I've thought of that...

...and I could use the $$$ no doubt!!! For some reason, I feel that I owe the person who did the original collecting of all these to find it a good home...(guess I'm not that much of a capitalist hunh???). So, eBay isn't completely out of the question in the future, but after I've tried to find the box a good home...

thanks for the info tho!

[Monkey see Monkey Do]

3. The Assassination Archives Research Center

might well be interested:

http://www.aarclibrary.org/

also Rex Bradford's History Matters site:

http://history-matters.com (which runs the AARC website)

For selling, The Last Hurrah Bookshop is probably the biggest assassination "shop":

http://hometown.aol.com/jfkhurrah/

[quispquake]

4. Thanks!!!

I hadn't found AARC...that's exactly what I was looking for!

pp23

[Old and In the Way]

5. You might want to PM Octafish

He posted some contacts, at UMass, I think that were archiving/researching the Kennedy assassination.

[quispquake]

6. Thanks!

I pm'ed Octafish...thanks for the help!

[zeemike]

7. I will bet the person that collected that stuff

Is smiling right now that it is in your hands.