My huge vanity post, on the CBS fake Killian memos!

Me | 9/09/04 | Me

[daviddennis]

I spot-checked a few of them.

"Purple Heart #1 Citation" was typed badly on a fixed-space typewriter, probably a pretty bad one. Bad typing means: Many of the letters with closed forms were partially filled in. Many of them were not lined up with the baseline.

"Request for Swift Boat Duty" - same.

Reserve Office Appointment is a form. Same typing exactly.

Office Order Memos. Mainly forms. Typing is better, with most characters aligned at the baseline. But many letters are still partially filled in and not clear. The font is fixed-width.

I think that's enough to make my point. There would have been no reason to have had a typewriter capable of printing with variable width fonts in the Navy and I see no evidence to believe otherwise.

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[ItsTheMediaStupid]

Lots of typewriters had superscript features, problem is that they simply shifted the same size font up and did not conjoin them. The experts also point to the perfect word wrapping without hyphens on all documents, possible on one document but not likely on all. Also all letters are perfectly even up, down, and sideways. Typewriters will have a few letters off. The heading is incorrect, the formating doesn't conform to the TANG standard at the time. But the icing on the cake is that the font does not match any known typewriter typeset, but does match perfectly with one of the supplied MS Word fonts.

[Eric in the Ozarks]

The one I saw was vintage 78.