Please settle this one issue (re: forgery flap)

[troublemaker]

Okay, leaving the source aside... this Bouffard fellow's observation about the "4"s is valid as far as I've been able to tell. Times New Roman is a serif face but it does have a sans-serif numeral "4," and typewriters genrally left the 4s open at the top. (I'm guessing here, but perhaps because a closed 4 top cut into the paper) The new memos do have computer style 4s. So my question is are there any closed top sans-serif 4s in any of the unquestioned typed documents? (not machine printed docs like the pay summaries) If not, I'm leaning forgery.

According to the weblog INDC Journal, Dr. Philip Bouffard, touted as one of the top two experts in forensic document examination of typefaces in the country, said he cannot make a 100-percent-positive evaluation because the documents appear to have been copied several times.

(But)...he also pointed out the number 4 does not have a "foot" and has a "closed top," which is indicative of Times New Roman, a font exclusive to modern computer word processing programs.

Bouffard told INDC Journal that after further analysis, he's fairly certain the Aug. 18, 1973, document is a fake. (My Note: it's funny that the cited doc has no fours in it. It doesn't undo the general observation about the fours, but I wanted to note it.)

He noted, examining his old papers, the inconsistency of the "4" coming up several previous times with forgeries that attempt to duplicate old proportional spaced documents with a computer word processor.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=40376