I was here that night. I remember.
How interesting. Did you know that buckhead was working on the exposure? It’s just so fantastic to talk to people who ‘were a part’ of FR at that time!
I was here that night too...
I was lurking on the thread so I was here, too.
I remember that after it aired on the East Coast people IMMEDIATELY suspected a forgery due in part to the “style” of the memo — a signature on the wrong side, etc...
And then calls out to FReepers on the West Coast to tape the show for stills and such... What a night that was. One of the more memorable ones, and certainly one of the most satisfying as most of the other memorable nights include tragedies (like OU, and Katrina...). Don’t recall that I posted on the discussion thread, but i sure do remember lurking on it! LOL
I second that. I read that thread either the same night, or early the next morning. Buckhead's post made enormous sense to me, as someone who had been around the military and seen lots of typewritten and carbon papered documents, and who also had joined the microcomputer revolution fairly early (1982), and therefore had seen the development of printing technologies first hand. Microspaced documents simply didn't exist outside of typeset books and newspapers in the era of the Rathergate forgeries.
Buckhead's post was a serious "this nails it!" moment, and the analyses that came out in the following days, including the animated gif posted above in this thread, were nothing but piling on the evidence for a case that had been completely made in that first post to anyone with the proper background and any sense. By the way, Rather should have had that background, so we see what he was lacking.