[Law is not justice but process]

" Are the superscript letter the exact same size as the regular letters? "

NO!!! They are much smaller. The only way I can imagine it could be done was with one of the IBM typewriters with a removable ball. In the middle of the document, the typist would have had to stop, change balls, type two letters, change balls again, and proceed. In the address at the top he did not bother, he put 111th with no superscript. In the first paragraph he just wrote 111 F.L.S.. In paragraph 2 he puts 111th with a superscript that is clearly a smaller font.

NO WAY IN THE WORLD!

[Robert A Cook PE]

In the "official" (i.e., real) images of Bush's paperwork from the real ANG unit, the "official" address they type is very simple:

No superscripts, no "changing letter size, no changing letterhead, or "pre-typing letterhead paper on a different machine" ..

Come on guys! These are USAF COMBAT-TRAINED FIGHTER PILOTS!!!!!! In an AIR NATIONAL GUARD UNIT in Houston during a shooting war! (NON-Air-conditioned offices and flight stations in the hangers!)

Anybody seriously think THEY'RE gonna play paperwork cover-your-ass games with undated memo's to unspecified people and be re-typing PERFECT MEMO's complete with superscripting addresses in their spare time over a minor administrative matter that doesn't affect pay for a junior officer soon to leave the ANG?

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Bush "official" (as-typed) ANG address from his real correspondence from his CO:

111th F.I.S. (TNG)
P.O. Box 34567
Houston, TX 77034

[RatherBiased.com]

http://www.etypewriters.com/1966-composer-b.JPG

seems to indicate that certain Selectric models had the ability to use more than one type ball simultaneously. Anyone know if they could use differently sized ones at once?

[David M. Brooks]

" Are the superscript letter the exact same size as the regular letters? " NO!!! They are much smaller. The only way I can imagine it could be done was with one of the IBM typewriters with a removable ball. In the middle of the document, the typist would have had to stop, change balls, type two letters, change balls again, and proceed. In the address at the top he did not bother, he put 111th with no superscript. In the first paragraph he just wrote 111 F.L.S.. In paragraph 2 he puts 111th with a superscript that is clearly a smaller font. NO WAY IN THE WORLD!

I owned an IBM Executive in '72, and there were some superscript characters, I don't recall the "th" but I expect it could be ordered. But to get the effect in the CBS memos the typist would have to roll the platen down, type the "th" character, then roll the platen back. So, it's not, "no way" but, who would bother in a memo to an underling. Anyway, aside from the CBS memos, there is no evidence that any proportional spaced typewriter was used in Kilian's office.