NCSU Libraries Focus Online

Volume 21 number 1 - Fall 2000

By Mary Kate Keith, Friends of the Library

Kermit L. Hall, NC State provost and vice chancellor for academic affairs and professor of history, will present "The Virulence of the National Appetite for Bogus Revelation: Opening the Secret Documents of the Kennedy Assassination" at the Friends' annual Fall Luncheon. The program will be held on November 8, 2000, in NC State's Jane S. McKimmon Center.

President Clinton nominated and the U.S. Senate confirmed Hall to serve on the John F. Kennedy Presidential Assassination Records Review Board. The board, established by Congress in 1992, re-examined 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 reviewed and voted on more than 27,000 redacted records and obtained consent to release an additional 33,000 records. More than four million pages of records were made available to the public through the President John F. Kennedy Assassination Records Collection at the National Archives in Washington, D.C.

Hall is a scholar of American constitutional law and history and is the author or co-author of four books on the history of law, the courts, and public life. He served as editor-in-chief of The Oxford Companion to the Supreme Court, which was named an Outstanding Reference Work for 1992 by the American Library Association and won the Gavel Award of the American Bar Association. He is a member of several national advisory boards.

The twelfth annual NCSU Libraries Faculty Award will also be presented during the Fall Luncheon. This award is given to an NC State faculty member who has contributed consistently and notably to the accomplishment of the Libraries' mission, vision, and strategic initiatives. For ticket information, call the Friends at (919) 515-2841, Monday through Friday, 8:00 a.m. to 5:00 p.m.