John F. Kennedy Library releases its Digital Archive, so far.

As just reported in the New York Times (NYT), the John F. Kennedy Library has unveiled its promised digitized holdings about the former President.  As reported by the NYT:

“Nearly 50 years after Kennedy pledged to make presidential documents “commonly available” through “scientific means of reproduction, microfilms and all the rest,” nearly 250,000 documents and 200 hours of audio and video from the library’s archives are to be made available online Thursday, free of charge. It is the first release in a $10 million effort to digitize his presidency.”

From the search page of the Digital Archive:

“The Digital Archives provides access to a growing collection of searchable digitized historical documents, images and materials. Archivists at the JFK Library are working to digitize and make available to the public all of our archival and museum holdings, beginning with the papers of President John F. Kennedy and his administration.”

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