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Donald J. Trump - Trump, Trump Administration, 2016 & 2020 Presidential Election and Related Events
37,042 pages of FBI Freedom of Information Act Releases
FBI files covering United States National Security Advisor and Secretary of State to presidents Nixon and Ford, Henry Kissinger, dating from 1961 to 1998
UFO Sightings Reporting FBI Files
The files in this compilation detail the FBI’s role in investigating UFO sightings reported between 1947 and 1954. This collection contains 1,616 pages of files copied from FBI Headquarters in Washington, D.C., covering reported sightings of unidentified/unexplained flying objects. In 1947, a series of reports made their way to the FBI. The FBI was interested in interviewing those who reported UFO sightings by members of the United States military, especially from the Air Force.
Robert Hanssen - FBI Agent, Russian Spy - DOJ, CIA, Military and other Documents
This collection contains 2,064 pages of material, containing coverage of the activities of Robert Hanssen. Robert Philip Hanssen, a former FBI Counterintelligence Officer, was also a Russian spy for over twenty years and wasn’t detected by the FBI until 2001. Hanssen began his espionage activity in 1979, three years after his background investigatio
Civil War Court Martial Case Files of Moses J. Robinett [Robinette] (NN-2123)
ourt martial case files of Moses J. Robinett [Robinette] (NN-2123) - Robinett is the Great-Great-Grandfather of Joseph Robinette Biden Jr., the 46th President of the United States of America.
World War II: Hermann Göring: Proceedings in the Case of Göring's Suicide
Hermann Wilhelm Göring (1893 - 1946) during World War I was a German fighter pilot ace. He went on to become a politician, military leader, and convicted war criminal. After Hitler became Chancellor of Germany in 1933, Göring formed the Gestapo. After World War II he was tried at the International Military Tribunal at Nuremberg. Göring was found guilty on the four counts he was charged with, then sentenced to death by hanging. On October 15, 1946, two hours before he was to be hanged, Göring committed suicide by poisoning himself by ingesting potassium cyanide
World War II: MI5 British Intelligence History of the Operations of M.S. 1939 - 1945
Vietnam War: Jane Fonda 1972 Visit to North Vietnam CIA, DIA, FBI, FBIS Files
Boston Strangler - Albert DeSalvo FBI Files, Civil Action Documents, Newspaper Articles
Jeffrey Epstein – FBI, Palm Beach PD, U.S. Attorney's Office & other Florida, and Federal Files
Robert Oppenheimer MI5 British Security Service File
Aaron Hernandez FBI, Massachusetts State Police, Bristol County Sheriff's Office & Court Documents
Manhattan Project: Photographs of the First Atomic Bombs being Prepared on Tinian Island
Abraham Lincoln Day-by-Day Chronology (1809-1865)
World War II: D-Day Frontpage News
World War II: "Philippine Postscript" - Newsletter for Families of U.S. POWs Held in the Philippines
World War II: Casualty Branch History & Reporting
Vietnam War: U.S. Air Force Internal Secret History, "The United States Air Force in Southeast Asia
Vietnam War Operation POPEYE: Cloud-Seeding, Weaponization of Weather Government Documents
World War II: Australian Military Forces Weekly Intelligence Review 1943-44
World War II: Soldier's Guide to the Japanese Army
Ukraine - United States & Russian Relations CRS Briefing Book & Archive 2004-2022
Holocaust Documents Archive USB Card - Document Collection Inventory Catalog
Thanksgiving Historical Documents 1678 to 2016
JFK Assassination Newspaper Articles 1963
Martin Luther King Jr. State Department Files - Passport Files
Civil War: New York Times 1860
Korean War: CIA Clandestine Services History - The Secret War in Korea, June 1950 to June 1952
Vietnam War: CIA History Staff Chronology of the Conflict 1940-1973 (1974)
World War II Selected Aerial Objectives for Retaliatory Gas Attacks on Germany and Japan
World War II: Field Interviews with Marine Corps Officers on the Guadalcanal Operations
World War II: Felix Hall Lynching FBI Files, Newspaper Articles, Historical Material
World War II Manual on Weapons for Jungle Warfare (1944)
African American Slavery: California Fugitive Slave Case: Stovall v. Archy Legal Papers
FBI Rabble Rouser Index Documents
Civil War: Battle of Antietam (Battle of Sharpsburg) - National Park Service Research & Histories
Vietnam War: North/Communist Vietnam Cryptology Official History NSA English Translation
Tulsa Oklahoma African American Newspaper Tulsa Star 1913-1921
World War II Nuremberg Trial Prosecutor Ralph G. Albrecht's Trial Notes
Vietnam War: Armed Propaganda Teams CIA Handbooks
World War II: Heinrich Himmler's Wife Margarete Himmler Interrogation Report and Diary
Civil War Ulysses S. Grant's Aide de Camp Orville E. Babcock's Diaries & Court Documents
World War II: Scotland Yard War Diary 1939 to 1945
World War II Documents Submitted by Japan During Surrender
Swine Flu 1976 Outbreak & Vaccination Program Ford Presidential, Congressional & Medical Papers
Civil War: Field Surgeon Dr. Mary Walker, Only Woman to win the Medal of Honor Documents
World War II: Prisoner of War Camps in Areas Other Than the Four Principal Islands of Japan
CIA Chief Counterterrorism Center Special Operations’ History of the CIA in Afghanistan, 2001-2002
World War II: Interrogations of Hermann Goering by the U.S. Strategic Air Forces in Europe
Journals of the Voyages of the Slavers St. John and Arms of Amsterdam Years 1659 and 1663
Vietnam War: Forest Fire as a Military Weapon
Anna May Wong Photographic Portraits
CIA Manual of the Soviet Army (1953)
Korean War: Key Korean War Battles Fought in the Republic of Korea
CIA Reporting on East German Prisons
Vietnam War: Airmobile Field Artillery Handbook
President Clinton/Prime Minister Blair: Transcripts of Telephone and in Person Conversations
Civil War: John Milton Bancroft Diary/Journal/Scrapbook
World War II: Hitler’s Escort Unit History by its Commander
United States v. Andrew Jackson (1815) Court Documents
American Newspapers January 1, 1920
World War I Christmas Day Truce 1914/1915 Newspaper Articles
World War II: Marina Lee Nazi Spy - Fall of Norway to Nazi Germany British MI5 Files
FBI Mafia Bible/Mafia Monograph - FBI Files
Civil War: Sherman's March - Barnard Photography
Watergate: David Gergen - White House Files
Soviet Invasion of Czechoslovakia CIA Situation Reports
World War II American POWs in Germany Intelligence Report
Nixon Administration Wiretapping Members of the Press FBI Files
World War II: Use of Poisons by the German Sabotage Service British MI5 Files
MKULTRA - CIA's Project MKULTRA FBI Files
Office of Strategic Services (OSS) Who's Who in Nazi Germany
Securities & Exchange Commission Report on Pre-September 11th Trading
World War II: SS Warsaw Police Chief Report on Warsaw Ghetto Uprising & Destruction of the Ghetto
Finding Aid - Private Motion Pictures of Adolf Hitler and Eva Braun (re-mastered 2019
Eva Braun Diary with Military Intelligence Translation
World War II: Japanese Navy History Graphics
Slave Ship Arthur 1677 Journal
Soviet Red Army Infantry Tactical Manual of the Red Army (1942) (Translation)
World War II: Malmedy Massacre ‐ Murder of American POWs Trial Films
Bombing of U.S.S. Franklin (CV-13) March 19, 1945 Film & Navy Damage Report
World War II OSS Report on Pre-Third Reich (1918-1933) Nationalist and Racial Groups
American Slavery: Slave Auction Catalog
Active Shooter FBI Studies Statistics Reports 2010-2018
World War II: Fuhrergebiet - German National Redoubt Deception British Government Files
World War II: OSS Report - Opium: A Japanese Technique of Occupation
Vietnam War U.S. Navy Junk Blue Book: A Handbook Of Junks Of South Vietnam
"The Last Days in Hitler's Air Raid Shelter" Hanna Reitsch Interrogation
Vietnam War: Saigon Evacuation After Action Report
World War II: British Traitors MIS File
President Dwight D. Eisenhower's Farewell Speech Documents
Vietnam War: CIA Report: The Vietnamese Communists Will to Persist (1966)
Roger Stone FBI Files & Other Documents
Hitler's Mountain Retreat "Eagle's Nest" US Army Report
Korean War: A Study of Combat Stress Korea
Impeachment Department of Justice Guide (1974)
Vietnam War: Vietnamese Village 1970 Handbook for Advisors
Vietnam War: Village Security Planning Guide for District and Mobile Advisory Teams (1970)
Vietnam War: Monsoon Season Force Disposition Study
Donald J. Trump – President Ronald Reagan White House Files
British Foreign Office File on Assassination Priorities for Operation OVERLORD
American Victims of the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima 1945
Compressed Searchable Copy of Mueller Report on the Investigation into Russian Interference
2007/2008 Financial Crisis: Financial Industry & Government E-Mails
Eisenhower - John F. Kennedy Correspondences - Contact Documents
Dachau - Office of Strategic Service, 7th Army OSS Section Report
WWII US Military Summary of Heinrich Himmler's Files
World War II: British MI5 Report on Counter Espionage Methods
Vietnam War 1st Cavalry Division - Airmobile Lessons Learned 1967
JFK Assassination Jim Leavelle Warren Commission Vertical File
Vietnam War: Counterinsurgency U.S. Army Report May 1961
Theophilus Eugene "Bull" Connor was born on July 11, 1897 in Selma, Alabama. In the 1960's he was the Public Safety Commissioner of Birmingham, Alabama. In this position he countered civil rights protest actions with fire hoses, police dogs, and even a small tank against protest marchers. His aggressive tactics lead to him becoming a symbol of hard-line Southern racism.
World War II Catalog of Enemy Ordnance Materiel
Photographs, diagrams, and details about German and Japanese Ordnance (Tanks, rockets, ammunition, mines, grenades, small arms, rifles, etc.) Volumes I and II are both contained in this document (German and Japanese)
Civil War: Oliver Wendell Holmes' Civil War Scrapbook
Oliver Wendell Holmes, Jr. Civil War Scrapbook - The scrapbook contains letters and notes, hand drawn illustrations, and newspaper and magazine article clippings.
Civil War: Harper's Ferry - John Brown Raid Congressional Report
Report of the Select committee of the Senate appointed to inquire into the late invasion and seizure of the public property at Harper's Ferry
(1860)
This collection is a set of KGB documents given to President Bill Clinton in 1999 by Russian President Boris Yeltsin. The files date from 1959 when Lee Harvey Oswald sought defection to the Soviet Union
Vietnam War: Glossary of Terms/List of Abbreviations
iles related to the creation of a “Glossary of Terms in Vietnam” (1967), by the Department of Defense, Department of the Army, U.S. Army Pacific, U.S. Army Vietnam, Command Historian.
John S. McCain Vietnam War POW Documents
350 pages of documents related to John S. McCain III and his time as a POW during the Vietnam War. Composed of CIA and Department of Defense files, a manuscript written by John McCain, audio of an oral history interview given by McCain, and other histories and photographs.
President Richard Nixon's Enemies List - Documents, White House Recordings and Interviews
177 pages of documents, 14 minutes of Nixon White House recordings, and 2 excerpts of oral history interviews of Daniel Schorr and George Schultz, covering the creation and development of a list of individuals viewed by the Nixon White House as President Nixon's major political opponents, which came to be known as the "enemies list."
American Revolution Prior Papers - The Dispute between Great Britain and America
A 1777 printing of, "A collection of interesting, authentic papers: relative to the dispute between Great Britain and America; shewing [sic] the causes and progress of that misunderstanding, from 1764 to 1775," also known as the Prior Papers. Compiled by John Almon.
American Revolution - John Adams and the Boston Massacre Trial of 1770
Pages of trial transcripts and history of the trial of British soldiers
American Revolution: Boston Massacre Eyewitness Accounts
Accounts of the Boston Massacre A 1770 copy of the publishing of, "A short narrative of the horrid massacre in Boston, perpetrated in the evening of the fifth day of March, 1770. By soldiers of the XXIXth regiment; which with the XIVth regiment were then quartered there: with some observations on the state of things prior to that catastrophe."
Hugh Hefner - Playboy Magazine/Playboy Enterprises FBI Files
FBI files covering Hugh Hefner, Playboy magazine, and Playboy Enterprises. Files date from 1955 to 1980.
World War II: Pearl Harbor: Franklin D. Roosevelt Presidential Papers
Key FDR Presidential and FDR Administration papers related to the bombing of Pearl Harbor. The papers also cover the administration’s internal debate over the decision to intern Japanese Americans.
US Navy History of the Civil War
Three volumes published between 1883 and 1885, by Daniel Ammen, Rear Admiral U.S. Navy, A. T. Mahan, Commander U.S. Navy, and James Russell Soley, Professor U.S. Navy.
FBI Files related to Andy Warhol. Andy Warhol, born Andrew Warhola, emerged from being a commercial artist in the 1950's to being the standard bearer of the pop art movement of the 1960's.