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[bryant]

You know what? This document was not created in 1973. Maybe it's a transcription, but that's Times New Roman, and those are curly apostrophes, and there's just no way. Also, it's a lousy CYA memo, since it's just claims with no backing evidence.

CBS needs to provide an evidence trail for those memos, or give up on their authenticity.

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[multiplexer.livejournal.com]

If you compare it to files on the FBI FOIA site, you can tell the difference between the fonts and kerning of a true typewriter created memo and that memo.

HOWEVER, if you read some of the newspaper print from that same era, or in the file I am looking at, 1934, the fonts look remarkably the same, with the same commas, the same character spacing, the same kerning, the same serifs.

So honestly, it's difficult to say if it's a forgery or not. I can find evidence, and very quickly, of either way.

[bryant]

It oughta look like newspaper print -- that's where Times New Roman comes from.

[multiplexer.livejournal.com]

Here's the thing: if I go digging through the FBI FOIA files, looking for items late 1960s-early 1970s, I can very much find memos in the files that look exactly like the CYA memo in font, kerning, spacing, etc. So should I assume that either a) the FBI had time travel or b) electric typewriters that came out in that period wrote text that looked like that?

You're welcome to look, too. I mostly read mob stuff, for reference.

I just don't know if I buy the "it is a forgery" until an "Expert" with an actual name comes out and has some salient proof. Until then, it's all blogosphere nattering.