9-28-98

                        NEWS ADVISORY:
  OHIO STATE FACULTY MEMBER PRESENTS REPORT TO CONGRESS ON
JFK ASSASSINATION RECORDS, AVAILABLE FOR INTERVIEWS WEDNESDAY

	Kermit Hall, dean of the College of Humanities and professor 
of history and law at The Ohio State University, is a member of 
the five-person Assassination Records Review Board, which is 
presenting its final report on Tuesday (9/29) in Washington, D.C.
The board was established by Congress in 1992 to re-examine for 
release the records related to President John F. Kennedy’s 
assassination that federal agencies still deemed too sensitive to 
open to the public.  The board has since reviewed and voted on 
over 27,000 previously redacted records and obtained agencies’ 
consent to release an additional 33,000 records.  More than 4 
million pages of records will now be available to the public 
through the National Archives.

	The board is participating in two events on Tuesday: at 
10:30 a.m., it will present its report to the National Archives, 
followed by a news conference at the archives building on 
Pennsylvania Avenue; at 2 p.m., the board will report to Congress 
in Room EF-100 of the Capitol Building.

	Hall will be back in Columbus on Wednesday and available for 
interviews with Central Ohio reporters.  Please call Barry 
Zvolenski in the College of Humanities at 292-1882 to schedule an 
interview.

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Contact: Ruth Gerstner, University Communications, (614) 292-8424