The Assassination Archives and Research Center's Digital Library Series of CD-ROMs is designed to facilitate research into the vast and unique holdings of the AARC. Each CD-ROM contains a collection of documents numbering in the thousands of pages, with sophisticated search tools and other ways of browsing and searching.

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The Church
Committee Reports

$29.95
(members $24.95)

The Church Committee Reports

This CD-ROM collects together electronic copies of all 14 hard-to-find published reports of the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations with Respect to Intelligence Activites. The so-called Church Committee documented a variety of abuses by the intelligence agencies.

Also included on this CD-ROM is over 1000 pages of Church Church Committee documents released under the JFK Assassination Records Collection Act. Some of these records were declassified as recently as the summer of 2000.

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The Russ Holmes
Work File on 8 CDs

$99.95
(members $89.95)

DVD-ROM Edition:

$89.95
(members $79.95)

The Russ Holmes Work File

The Russ Holmes Work File consists of over 45,000 pages of formerly-secret CIA documents released in 1998 - 2000. These records are part of the "Segregated Collection" of CIA documents accessible to the House Select Committee on Assassinations.

This set of 8 CD-ROMs covers a large range of topics, including a great deal of material on Mexico City CIA operations and the allegations of Communist conspiracy which surrounded purported Lee Harvey Oswald's sojourn to that city in the fall of 1963.

Innovative "Live Indexes" make this vast archive accessible, providing hyperlinked listings of documents sorted by record number, date, box and folder, topic, and in other useful ways.

Also available on a single DVD-ROM—search the entire collection with a single query.

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The Garrison Transcripts

$39.95
(members $34.95)

The Garrison Transcripts

The Garrison Transcripts contains the most important transcripts related to the Garrison investigation of the late 1960s. This set includes the transcript of the 1969 trial of Clay Shaw, as well as the newly-available transcripts of the grand jury which preceded that trial.

This CD-ROM also includes other transcripts and documents relating to the Garrison investigation and its aftermath, including the transcript of the Shaw Preliminary Hearing, a 1600-page deposition of Gordon Novel, and transcripts related to Garrison's attempt to obtain the JFK autopsy photos and X-rays for use at the Clay Shaw trial.

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Assassination Transcripts of the Church Committee

$39.95
(members $34.95)

Assassination Transcripts of the Church Committee

In the 1970s, the Senate Select Committee to Study Governmental Operations With Respect to Intelligence Activities (aka Church Committee) investigated CIA plots to assassinate foreign leaders, including Patrice Lumumba of the Congo, Fidel Castro of Cuba, Rafael Trujillo of the Dominican Republic, Ngo Dinh Diem of South Vietnam, and General Rene Schneider of Chile. The Church Committee also conducted a limited re-investigation of the JFK assassination.

This CD-ROM presents the publicly available transcripts of interviews conducted by the Committee in its assassination investigations. More than 125 transcripts provide a unique and compelling window into a rare moment in American history. Accompanying these transcripts are important reports and documents, including the Committee's Interim Report on assassination plots, the so-called Schweiker-Hart Report on the JFK assassination and the (in-)famous 1967 CIA Inspector General's Report on CIA plots to assassinate Fidel Castro.

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AARC 2004 Conference DVD Set

$149.95
(members $139.95)

AARC 2004 Conference DVD Set

In September 2004, the AARC held a conference commemorating the 40th anniversary of the Warren Commission, entitled "The Warren Report and its Legacy."

Speakers included Dr. Cyril Wecht, Dr. Gary Aguilar, Josiah Thompson, Don Thomas, Gerald McKnight, Jefferson Morley, John Newman, AARC President Jim Lesar, Rex Bradford, and many others.

This 13-DVD set captures all of the presentations. Each disc includes chapter markers, so that any given presentation can be immediately accessed.

CD-ROMs are available for purchase via the History Matters on-line catalog.

History Matters accepts payment via check or Visa/MasterCard credit cards.

History Matters also features its own line of innovative CD-ROM titles. For more information, visit the History Matters web site.

JFK: Medical Evidence Archive, Volume I: Assassination Records Review Board Medical Releases

JFK Records Collection Act Research Series, Volume I: ARRB '95 and '96 Releases