“Why is the O in Oahu floating like a balloon above the line, but not in OBAMA?”
Yes, I noticed the same thing... it’s not even consistent with the other “Oahu”. Vertical misalignments should be consistent throughout the document if it was written on one typewriter, but there are MANY inconsistent alignments I can see. Compare the capital “K” in “Kansas” to the other capital “K”s or the alignment of the word “Africa” vs the word “African”. These couldn’t be produced with a single typewriter, and I can see no reason why multiple typewriters would be used in so many different fields on the form. Perhaps the hospital would pre-type fields 6a-6c, but the misalignments in the rest of the form are inexplicable.
What it looks like to me, is that the document was faked by a younger person who is great at photoshop, but has no firsthand knowledge of what a typewritten document actually looks like. They probably decided to misalign some letters in order to make it look more “authentic”, not realizing that typewriters will vertically misalign documents consistently. That’s one of the main things that allows forensic examiners to determine the signature of a typewriter and match it to documents that were written on it.
Looks like a fake to me!
Look at the “K” in Wichita, Kansas. It’s tilted. Not like the “K” in Kenya.
Do you see anything other than a variable vertical shift in capital letters? That happens if you don't press the shift key all the way down when typing a capital letter. You could avoid this if you had a nice fully electric typewriter like an IBM Selectric where hitting the shift key changed how the type ball was turned, but on mechanical typewriters the shift key manually tilted the whole set of typebars. If you didn't press it all the way down the capitals would appear at different heights, as shown by the large number of red circles on my high school typing class papers :-(.
Fine. Now why is that old typewriter being used on the modern security paper with the green basketweave? Do they make transparencies and then print it on modern paper? If so, why is it in a bound volume? Do they do that with every bc?
Questions, questions! :)