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“I look at that and think, ‘Well, she was saving that for something,' because I end up seeing these in other places,” her archivist explains.

Tony Best is an archivist and contractor with the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences who conducted an Academy oral history interview with Maple in early 2020 and remained part of her circle.

Now, the president has fired the U.S. archivist, replacing a professional academic with Marco Rubio, despite his duties as secretary of state.

But this archivist has spent the past 30 years solving a mystery.

Times archivist James Kim and the Associated Press contributed to this report.