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Subject: Assasination Review Board  9/3/93

                         THE WHITE HOUSE

                  Office of the Press Secretary
_________________________________________________________________

For Immediate Release                        September 3, 1993

       PRESIDENT NAMES FOUR TO ASSASSINATIONS REVIEW BOARD

WASHINGTON, D.C. - President Clinton today announced his 
intention to nominate three historians and an attorney to the 
Assassinations Review Board, convened to review government 
records related to the assassination of President John F. 
Kennedy. Named were Princeton University librarian William L. 
Joyce, University of Tulsa Dean Kermit L. Hall, American 
University History professor Anna Kasten Nelson and Minnesota 
Chief Deputy Attorney General John R. Tunheim. 

     "I am pleased these talented people, recommended by our 
country's leading historical groups, have agreed to take on this 
important task," the President said.
 
     The Assassinations Review Board is responsible for ensuring 
and facilitating the review and public disclosure of government 
records related to the assassination of President John F. 
Kennedy. Its members will render decisions on whether particular 
information in an assassination record qualifies for postponement 
of disclosure. As recommended by statue, the President's nominees 
named today have been recommended by the American Historical 
Association, the Organization of American Historians, the Society 
of American Archivists and the American Bar Association. 
                                 
     Biographical sketches of the nominees follow.

     
William L. Joyce has served as Princeton University's associate 
librarian for rare and special books since 1986 and as a member 
of the library faculty since 1984. Previously, he was an adjunct 
professor at the Columbia University School of Library Service 
(1984 - 92)  and assistant director for rare books and 
manuscripts at the New York Public Library (1981 - 86). 

                                 

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Appointments 
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Joyce served with the American Antiquity Society for 10 years, as 
curator of manuscripts (1972 - 81) and as an education officer 
(1988 - 81). He is a member of the Society of American Archivists 
and the author of numerous articles on archivists and research. 
Joyce earned a BA from Providence College (1964), a MA from St. 
John's University (1966) and a Ph.D. from the University of 
Michigan (1974). 

Kermit L. Hall has served as Dean of the University of Tulsa's 
Henry Kendall College of Arts & Sciences since 1992. From 1981 -
1991, he served on the faculty of the History Department of the 
University of Florida. Previously, Hall taught history at Wayne 
State University (1976 - 81) and at Vanderbilt University (1972 -
76). Hall is the author of a number of books and articles on 
American history and law. Hall earned a BA from the University of 
Akron (1966), a MA from Syracuse University (1967), a Ph.D. from 
the University of Minnesota (1972) and a M.S.L. from Yale 
University Law School (1980). 

Anna Kasten Nelson has served as a professor of History at 
American University since 1990. Prior, she served as a professor 
at Tulane University (1988 - 90) and George Washington University 
(1970 - 85) and headed up GWU's History and Public Policy 
program. Nelson has served as a consultant for the Congressional 
Research Service (1978-79) and the U.S. House of Representatives 
Select Committee on Congressional Operations (1978). She is the 
author of a number of articles on government and history. Nelson 
earned a BA and MA from the University of Oklahoma, a Ph.D. from 
Ohio State University and a Ph.D. from George Washington 
University.

John R. Tunheim has served as Chief Deputy Attorney general of 
the state of Minnesota since 1986. An attorney, Tunheim served in 
private practice prior with the St. Paul firm Oppenheimer, Wolff, 
Foster, Shepard & Donnelly (1981 - 84) and has argued three cases 
before the Supreme Court. Tunheim clerked for Senior U.S. 
District Judge Earl R. Larson (1980-91) and served as a field 
representative for Senator Hubert Humphrey from 1975 - 78. He 
earned a BA from Concordia College in 1975 and a JD from the 
University of Minnesota Law School in 1980.   

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