BHO Birth Certificate-a "Rather" Bad Forgery-Game OVER!

The Market Ticker ^ | 5-2-2011 | HMV

[Freeper]

I assume that you meant

"And though I agree that “changing balls” MIGHT have accomplished SOME of the irregularities of type that appeared,"

Did you mean changing an IBM Selectric Typewriter "ELEMENT" ------ The Selectic Typewriter WAS NOT even invented in 1961!

If not, sorry.

[Mr.Unique]

That part of the problem wasn’t the part that proved the case anyway.

Folks had differing views of what proved the Rather docs were fake. What convinced you?

[Mach9]

Yes, I certainly did mean IBM Selectric balls/elements—but strictly as a hypothetical example. As it turns out, however, there’s also been talk about changes over the years; this can’t be the first time O has needed a faked BC. I think the point was that EVEN IF the element had been around (and I agree it wasn’t), it was still not capable of ALL the irregularities cited on the newly released version.

[muawiyah]

The second they were released I knew exactly what the plot had been ~ from that point on it was just a question of finding out all the things the conspirators had done wrong.

[Jeff Winston]

Ask him about the flair (magic marker type) pen Stanley Ann used that weren’t invented yet

This would be a very difficult issue to really process. From what I've seen, there were a few different kinds of pens in use circa 1960. This one doesn't look like a felt tip to me at all. It looks a lot more like a fountain pen signature on absorbent paper. But that's not an expert opinion, just speculation.

[GSWarrior]

I saw Ringo Starr once.

[Jeff Winston]

The only way to get there is to question, to test. I’d rather have those questioners & testers on our side.

Thank you.

[ml/nj]

They hire computer geeks to forge 1960s-era documents who have no clue how a manual typewriter works!

The one who has no clue about how manual typewriters worked is the guy who wrote this article. I'm old enough to have about a dozen or more years of experience on manuals.

It is possible, even common, to type at half character positions on every manual typewriter I ever used. (Try it if you still have one someplace. Space into the middle of a line. Hold down the backspace key, and type a character, say an 'X'. Then fill the line below normally with characters. None of them will align with the 'X' on the line above.)

ML/NJ