Let's PLEASE distill the forgery dispute to questions of empirical fact

[troublemaker]

There is a real world and in that real world these docs are either legit or they are not. Nobody's motives matter here. There have been 100 really dumb right wing "proofs" of forgery, like the proportional type thing. Don't worry about anything having to do with formatting -- proportional spacing, alignments, centering, etc.. 1970s business machines could do all that stuff.

Try to find this type face in an actual TYPED sample. We know this face exists on computers and in fonts on the internet... the question is whether this face appears in a TYPED document from the 1960s-1972.

All that matters is basic letter shapes. Proportion and weight and shapes of strokes cannot be determined from degraded xeroxes. And alignment of letters, baseline variance, etc. cannot be discussed from degraded xeroxes. All exercises involving blowing up type, etc. are useless because these are degraded xeroxes.

We need an IBM type ball face that looks like this:

http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2004/09/06/politics/main641481.shtml

All letter forms must match. The face MUST have a closed top (pointed) 4 with NO foot serif and a 3 with a rounded top (not a flat top)

[snippy]

1. Has anyone contacted IBM? n/t

[wryter2000]

2. What is blue blazes is that woman talking about?

I looked at one of the memos (yes, it's a bad xerox), and it's obviously done on a typewriter. On the 04 May 1972 memo, the "el" at the end of Colonel under his signature is higher than the other letters. It looks too sloppy for even an electric typewriter.

[BeFree]

3. Why go through all that trouble?

CBS says the documents are authentic. The only ones thinking they aren't are people who love aWol.