a. In Box 5a and 5b, look at the difference in the baselines between "August 4" and ", 1961 7:24 P." (I used the Object Data Tool in Acrobat to create horizontal and vertical reference lines). This could only happen if the typist unlocked the platen (roller) and, either scrolled it down a smidge (much less than a full CR) and continued typing, or completely removed the form and later re-installed it. I suppose this is possible, but still, it is an anomaly.
b. In Box 5a, there is definitely something wrong with the spacing between the "4" and the ",". If there is no space, it should appear like the commas after Kenya and Wichita, but it doesn't. If there is a single space between the "4" and "," it should have the same distance, e.g., as the two "A's" in "OBAMA", but it doesn't. Since the comma correctly aligns with the "U" in University, I suggest it is the "4" that has "a problem".
b. The "X's" in all the check boxes are oddly aligned both horizontally and vertically with respect to the rest of the typing. Vertical placement can be incrementally shifted by unlocking the platen (roller), but shifting the horizontal positioning can only be done by removing the paper from the typewriter, or diddling with the backspace key (only if it was a manual). Still, e.g., the "X's" in 6d and 7e align perfectly horizontally with each other, but not with the "s" in "August", nor vertically with "Hospital" or "Highway. The logical answer for this is that the checked boxes were computer "cut and pasted".
c. The characters in Box 2 and Box 17a (words: "Male" and "None" are not horizontally aligned with the rest of the typed document.
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d. Going vertically down the leftmost margin, the first letters of the printed form boxes all align except for the ones in Box 6c, 20 and 23. Of course, this could just be sloppy form creation by the DOH.
e. Look at the bottom horizontal line of the form and compare it with the green background pattern. Perfect alignment. For a Xerox copy of the form, someone spent some real time making the two line up, Further, note that the green pattern itself doesn't quite line up with the bottom of the page margin.
There are just too many small problems with this document for me to accept that it didn't have modern computer intervention wrt its creation.
Anyone want to legitimately discuss these items? Trolls are welcome, too.
You points are good.
I spread the word now (that it's an obvious fraud) at all friend and family get togethers. If we all do that, one year from now it should be common knowledge.
Passing this piece of garbage off as a real BC... takes brass balls.
Not necessarily. The manual typewriter I had in the late '60s had a button that released the platen and let me move it freely from left to right.
Still, e.g., the "X's" in 6d and 7e align perfectly horizontally with each other, but not with the "s" in "August", nor vertically with "Hospital" or "Highway. The logical answer for this is that the checked boxes were computer "cut and pasted".
But they're not the same as each other. Are you arguing that someone copied and pasted two different checked boxes, rather than just using the same one twice?