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I used the various Selectric models all day for some years, and never once did I change the ball in the same document. We only had two type balls anyway; one was script and a novelty for the kind of documents I typed, no need for it, may have come as a package with the typewriter. The federal government would have been at the top of the list for purchase of the typewriters in 1961 which could have made others backordered, not necessarily so, but I know I had one at work by 1961. I also bought a used one for home at some point, but don't know what became of it.

Even if it's not going anywhere, it's interesting.

This analysis has brought out a new point I hadn't seen, many letters obviously not matching, assuming the analyst is on the up and up, so it's probably a composite. Some guy today finds 3 u's with the same pixel configuration. There are so many anomalies, I've lost count, but the kerning may not be an issue as explained by a freeper as well as the odd left corner, probably scanned from a bound book, saw a point about the hospital wasn't called that in 1961 but unless the two Nordyke certs are forgeries (highly doubtful), they were the same with the hospital name.

Also I used a grid, and the beginning of words near the top being completely straight is iffy, inconclusive AFAIC. But some of the anomalies don't need to be there for any reason, like it would be easy enough to pick up one whole word from the same document, so it doesn't make sense to pick one letter off one and another off another, copy, paste unless the whole entry was changed and left what fit intact and built around it. But the hospital name? Oahu? Honolulu? Doesn't make sense they'd have different components from different source documents.

Corsi jumps to the conclusion he was born in Kenya; I'm not ready to make that leap.

So people point out this and that, but nobody attempts to explain why that particular anomaly; a dearth of speculation of what should have been there or should it have been there at all.

I'll put this idea out there. It's pretty obvious the green security paper was layered into the document to make room for the certifications, dates and signatures at the bottom. But I wonder, if there is a document on file, the bottom was cropped off because there is something there somebody doesn't want seen.