FY2003 Information Quality Requests
1. Date Received: October 4, 2002
Request Summary
In "A People at War," the section on Lt. Kennedy identifies
the aircraft shown as a PB4Y-1. I believe that the aircraft is a B-24 Liberator.
Resolution Summary
NARA responded that the designations were synonymous, the PB4Y-1 being
the Navy's designation for the B-24 Liberator.
2. Date Received: February 3, 2003
Request Summary
Please check these facts: my understanding is John Glenn's capsule
was the Friendship 7. I believe Shepard's was the Freedom 7. This caption is
under a picture on your web site.
Resolution Summary
The name of John Glenn's capsule was changed from "Freedom 7"
(which was the name of Shepard's capsule) to "Friendship 7" at this
URL http://www.archives.gov/media_desk/press_kits/picturing_photo_gallery_2.html.
3. Date Received: March 3, 2003
Request Summary
Individual came to the National Archives at College Park to view records
of the U.S. District Court for the District of New Jersey and Predecessor Courts,
1790-1950 which are on microfilm T928. NARA's website showed that this microfilm
was located at the National Archives at College Park but the film was located
at the National Archives building in downtown Washington, DC. He asked NARA
to correct its website.
Resolution Summary
The error was corrected.
4. Date Received: June 11, 2003
Request Summary
Individuals are misidentified in photograph of Archival Research Catalog
(ARC) Identifier 194704 in TITLE description as well as the SCOPE AND CONTENT
NOTE. The correct names are (r-l) Richard M. Nixon, SONNY WEST, JERRY SCHILLING,
Elvis Presley.
Resolution Summary
The names (Jerry West was corrected to Sonny West, and Sonny Baker
was corrected to Jerry Schilling) were corrected in the Title and Scope and
Content Note.
5. Date Received: June 13, 2003
Request Summary
I viewed the Traveling Historical Documents Exhibit at the San Antonio
Witte Museum, which was wonderful. I noticed a slight factual error, however,
on the information board that appears next to the exhibit relating to the Civil
Rights Act of 1964. Towards the end of the information board, a statement is
made about a statement President Johnson made "eight" years after
"leaving the Presidency" (or word to that effect). President Johnson
left office on January 20, 1969, and passed away slightly more than four years
later, on January 22, 1973.
Resolution Summary
A new exhibit panel was created with corrected text stating that President
Johnson's statement cited in the exhibition was made "eight years after
he signed the Civil Rights of 1964 into law", not "eight years after
he left the Presidency."
6. Date Received: July 25, 2003
Request Summary
Image link for page 160: http://media.nara.gov/media/images/35/20/35-1929a.gif.
The image shows page 159...NOT page 160. Please note that even the image size
is different, indicating that the wrong image is showing. The images for pages
159 and 161, before and after this erroneous link, are correct.
Resolution Summary
Your e-mail, along with a number of other researchers' correspondence,
has alerted us to some mis-scans with our initial scanning project. The pages
from the Index to the Final Rolls of the Five Civilized Tribes (Dawes) are some
of those mis-scans that we have corrected. Thank you for your feedback. We apologize
for any inconvenience and appreciate your patience while we had the pages rescanned.
7. Date Received: August 26, 2003
Request Summary
I checked your website on Lt. Henry O. Flipper. You list his birthday
incorrectly as Feb. 21, 1856. I think if you check primary sources including
Lt. Flipper's own writing (The Colored Cadet at West Point) you will find that
his birthday is in fact March 21, 1856. If you can find evidence that he was
in fact born on Feb. 21, 1856, please enlighten me. Thank you.
Resolution Summary
The birth date for Lt. Henry O. Flipper's birth date was corrected
to March 21, 1856 at http://www.archives.gov/exhibit-hall/featured_documents/
henry_o_flipper/ on NARA's website.
8. Date Received: September 9, 2003
Request Summary
A small thing, but, "They Met at Gettysburg" motion pictures,
Archival Research Catalog (ARC) identifier 11732, under Scope and Content notes:
William Henry Jackson is identified (customer wrote "at", but I believe
"as" is what he meant) a Confederate veteran. He actually was a member
of the 12th Vermont Regiment. Union veteran. By the way I love your web-site
and people at the NA College Park were wonderful.
Resolution Summary
The item, 48.101, has been corrected via our internal data entry system to reflect
the correct association of William Henry Jackson as a Union veteran and the
physical information has been updated to reflect the addition of a VHS reference
copy.