license: mit
task_categories:
- question-answering
- summarization
language:
- en
tags:
- legal
pretty_name: JFK TELL
size_categories:
- 100M<n<1B
Dataset Card for JFK TELL
This dataset contains text that was extracted from the John F. Kennedy assassination records released on archives.org by the US government.
Dataset Details
Dataset Description
The data in this dataset is generated by processing another HF dataset, the JFK-Archives dataset, which consists of PDF files originally released on archives.org. The PDF files have been proessed using the Google Gemini API to generate Markdown text.
Since the release of JFK records is ongoing, this and JFK-Archives datasets are both snapshots of the archives.org data as of April 2025.
- Curated by: Farhan Ahmad
- Funded by [optional]: Farhan Ahmad
- Language(s) (NLP): English
- License: MIT
Dataset Sources [optional]
- Repository: https://github.com/farhanhubble/jfk-tell
Uses
The dataset can be used to index the JFK assassination records for search, summarization and Q&A.
Dataset Structure
The data is a single parquet file. The file_path column in the parquet file can be used to
identify the year(s) of release for each data point. The text column is the text extracted
from the corresponding PDF file, in Markdown format.
| file_path | text |
|---|---|
| 2017-2018/104-10180-10145.md | CLASSIFIED MESSAGE 104-10180-10145 ... |
| 2022/docid-32331372.md | JFK Assassination System Identification Form Date ... |
The years(s) are: [2017-2018, 2021, 2022, 2023, 2025]
Dataset Creation
Curation Rationale
The JFK assassination has been an unassailable mystery even after decades of investigations by premier agencies, the media and ordinary people. A large-scale analysis of the assassination records may offer new clues, and help substantiate or refute some of the theories. There are about six millions files related to the event that are being made public through archives.org over time.
This HF dataset makes it easier for anyone interested in performing such an analysis to access the text data, build search indexes and use AI tools to navigate and summarize the huge volume of information. Hopefully, writers, journalists, computational linguists and data scientists can try their hands on the breadth and variety of this data.
Source Data
https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk
Data Collection and Processing
Markdown text files were generated by processing the JFK-Archives dataset, with Google Gemini API using a simple prompt. The code and prompts for the processing are available through this repo. The download and text-processing are lossy processes so some files could be missing and some others may be empty.
Who are the source data producers?
Personal and Sensitive Information
Some of the records may contain personal information. Please see the relevant archives.org page for details. For example: https://www.archives.gov/research/jfk/release-2025
Dataset Card Authors [optional]
Farhan Ahmad