“On a separate topic, do you know anyone in the Washington D.C. area that might be willing to look for some specific documents in the National Archives?”
Nope.
I do recall a claim that a congressman told a voter in his district that he had verified that the microfilm of the HI newspapers in the Congressional Library showed Barry’s birth announcements as reported to be the case in HI and also in CA.
Only legal discovery including forensic examination of these microfilm reels by competent, independent experts and also documentation of the provenance of the reels can show whether they were tampered with, IMO
If I’m understanding correctly (correct me if I’m mistaken, LF) that Congress-critter, looking in the Library of Congress, apparently failed to notice that there was a large scratch in the Aug 1-15, 1961 Advertiser microfilm roll that started at the beginning of the roll and ended on the page right before Obama’s birth announcement.
If that roll of microfilm was created by a microfilming company, it was tampered with by non-professionals who left their tracks all over it - the scratch literally pointing right at the page that had to be altered.
And I do mean left their tracks. There are fingerprints on that microfilm roll (developed onto the microfilm roll - which comes from film being handled with bare hands and then a duplicate made of the manipulated/fingerprinted film; not something that would be done by a microfilming company), as there also are on the Berkeley and Sacramento microfilms. Or were, anyway. They may have been changed out again. I’d have to look at the documents again, but IIRC at least one of the microfilms has been changed out twice, as evidenced by disappearing “scratches”.