Under the Freedom of Information Act, you can obtain information on:
- an organization, business, investigation, historical event, or incident.
- a third party.
- a deceased person.
- yourself.
At the FBI website (www.fbi.gov), they have published some of the most popular FOIA requests. From a jazz standpoint, these include Duke Ellington, Thelonious Monk, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway and Charles Mingus amongst others. An interesting peek into an interesting period of time…..