[spyone]

Check the font!

[Names Ash Housewares]

Has anyone checked the fonts on Kerrys documents yet?

[sharktrager]

http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/Silver_Star.pdf

[Prime Choice]

Look at the justification of Kerry's Silver Star Citation that was written in 1969. A fake as well?

I hope the Office of the Inspector General is paying attention. This would be most interesting to the DoD Investigators.

[prisoner6]

Hmmmm...I don't know. Looks like the "curly double quotes" and proportional spacing. If this IS authentic, then it could lend >some< credibility to the CBS docs. We gotta tread lightly on ALL the stuff coming out in the next few weeks...

prisoner6

[Sloth]

Wouldn't you expect official presentation documents to be nicely typeset, like diplomas?

[prophetic]

really fishy stuff here!!!

[gilliam]

sure looks typeset

[Michael Goldsberry]

Sorry, I can't get past the whole "johnkerry.com" thing.

[kidd]

If I were to play devil's advocate...

I would think that the Silver Star award is important enough that it would be printed by a typesetter. A typesetter would have the capability to produce justified type.

[Boundless]

The "released" Kerry docs have always been under a cloud
of suspicion, and in the wake of the CBS scandal, the
questions can only grow.

Irrespective of typographic details in the Silver Star
citations, the Kerry campaign won't even address the
bleedin' obvious question of why there are THREE (3)
of them, one entirely disclaimed by its purported author.

Only, ONLY, an SF-180 made out to authorize the general
public (anyone) to access ALL UNDELETED documents from
ALL ARCHIVES can clear this up.

[Tamzee]

Looks like they dressed up the Silver Star citations, the justification isn't inconsistent with this other citation I found for another gent in 1969.

I think Kerry's Silver Star is a fraud, but this won't prove it.

[Tamzee]

That said... I did take a look at Kerry's DD214 and there are TWO different fonts, one is a proportional font.

http://www.johnkerry.com/pdf/jkmilservice/DD214.pdf

Notice the different M's in FITZSIMONS and COMMISSION.... the different L's in COLORADO and NAVAL... the different C's in COLORADO and COLLEGE, etc....

All the darker text is in one font (typical older mono-spaced font), and the lighter text is all in a different font (a proportionally-spaced font you'd find in a word-processing program).

[Rich_E]

I'm sorry, but it's relatively easy to justify using mono type spacing, even during that period. All you need to do is count the characters and spaces, then add a space bar where needed. If you look closely at these documents, you will see the characters align with the one below, showing it to be mono spaced. It's harder to see with Italic font though. If you check the second document for example, the first line is For conspicuous.... You can see the extra space between For and conspicuous.

It's MUCH harder to justify using proportional spacing and kerning.

[Straight Vermonter]

You may be mistaken about the date. Kerry lost his original and had a new one "made up" sometime later.

[mcg1969]

Justified text was readily available in the 60's and 70's using typesetting services. Award citations seem like a very sensible use of such services.

This scandal is no excuse to blindly shake trees to see what drops, it makes us look a bit silly.

[js1138]

Depends on where the citation was printed. If it was done at a major headquarters they would have had typesetters, or at least good typewriters. It's the difference betweena Major award and a personal memo.

[Ciexyz]

Interesting.