Posted on 09/09/2004 10:49:41 AM PDT by Jack_1
I opened Microsoft Word, set the font to Microsoft’s Times New Roman, tabbed over to the default tab stop to enter the date “18 August 1973,” then typed the rest of the document purportedly from the personal records of the late Lieutenant Colonel Jerry B. Killian.
And my Microsoft Word version, typed in 2004, is an exact match for the documents trumpeted by CBS News as “authentic.”
(Excerpt) Read more at littlegreenfootballs.com ...
If you run the Microsoft Word document through a scanner, I suspect you'd have an identical match with all of the stray marks and minor letter drops.
I was laughing so hard I forgot to mention the ozone was for the liberal new sources.....sorry...
They should tell us how they got them. We shouldn't have to take their word for it that they are authentic. The info on how they got them is part of the story, particularly if they are vouching for their authenticity.
Another angle is the date Saturday, August 18, 1973. Where was this Commander on August 18, 1973?
It is, and was, COURIER NEW in the Naval Service. ANYTHING else is BOGUS.
"They should tell us how they got them"
Yes. I assumed they got them from military records...or was there an intermediary?
Who can halftone the 'memo text, over the modern Word version. Ideally you would leave the original as black and turn the Word version into red. Lay them over each other and see if any red shows or of the 'memo' perfectly cancels out the red fake.
...............WORD fake:
If forgeries (as seems likely)...
Were they actually in the "archives"?
Who Berger'd them in there?
If not, at what point in the delivery chain were
they Berger'd in?
As I was once said by the Governator: "No Problemo."
I've been working in the field for over 20 years and currently serve with a text processing company so I am intimately familiar with these technologies. The document is an OBVIOUS forgery. Note last night I cautioned it's probably not even worth the exercise because it's not part of the current agenda. However, now that this forgery has been proven so effectively, Dan Rather must be held accountable.
Holy cow.
That's...
Can anybody tell me if that is possible? EVERY report I've seen from that era, ESPECIALLY lower level stuff (i.e. memos) was on a typewriter!
That memo on the left wasn't made by no typewriter I ever met!
Has anybody contacted Drudge on this?
Who's Standt or Hodges. Can they verify this?
This is not necessarily true. At least one Freeper had personal experience with IBM Executive (NOT Selectric) typewriters with a proportional spaced font in that same time period.
But this Times Roman mockup demonstration is VERY compelling because of how exact it is.
Hey, you are forgetting...it's not the validity of the proof that is important. It is the seriousness of the charges that makes it important.
The content is also extraordinary. It is so chocked filled with what they need. That's a little too much for me.
Save both images from above to your hard drive.
Simply open Paint.
Use the box thingy to draw a box around the text then "cut" the text.
Open up the second file in paint.
Paste the first one over the second! The "move" the image over the first.
PERFECT MATCH!!!!!!
That's dang creepy. Manoman, I had been keeping my comments back, thinking folks were just "reachin" around here, but now I'm starting to think that this IS a case of forgery.
Desparation is a horrible thing, and cornered animals are dangerous. The road to November is going to be sticky.
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