I’m not sure if the National Archives have the newspaper microfilms. The Library of Congress has them; ladysforest has gotten copies from there. I hope to post on some of the other discrepancies and anomalies in later posts, but somebody actually changed the label on the microfilm box for the Advertiser microfilm that has Obama’s announcement, and then later changed the call number back to what it originally was - as if they changed it so nobody could find that microfilm for a while (until the microfilm was switched) and then once the microfilm was switched they changed the call number back so it could be “found” again.
To change historic documents in the Library of Congress is a crime, I’m sure. But I don’t expect the Department of Injustice to even think about investigating this.
We have inquired about ordering microfilms from the company which did the microfilming for the Advertiser, but they say they will only allow libraries to order.
I’ll get into it more later, but for the images to be pristine means that the forgeries were probably made from either a master or 2nd-generation microfilm; the Honolulu Advertiser had custody of those. At the very time that these forgeries were apparently made there were efforts to get the archived microfilms for the Advertiser digitized - which is what was so interesting about the Wikileaks image that was released (and I believe that is the image that was linked to from Politifact - but the Wikileaks image is no longer available). It claimed to be the first posting of the announcements even though these other images had been around for a couple months.
What it WAS the first of was the first digitized, searchable file of that announcement. I’ve got a screen shot of the Google entry showing that the file was found by searching for “Norman Asing”. You can’t get the other images by Googling any of the text in the announcements because the other files are jpegs, not pdf’s.
I don’t have the capability of investigating the bigwigs who were working with the Advertiser - and now that the Advertiser doesn’t exist any more the avenue for discovery may be effectively shut down already - but what I suspect is that the “original” has been changed out also, and was submitted for digitization so the full story will never be able to be proven.