Posted on 08/29/2004 10:00:20 AM PDT by doug from upland
In 1968-69, Lieutenant Jr. Grade John Forbes Kerry wrote after-action reports. They are part of the official record. It is highly likely that several of them are "embellished," shall we say.
What typewriter might Kerry have used to phony up, I mean embellish, his reports? Please bring us a picture of the machine.
Could this one be a possiblility?
The Remington Ranger?
Alger Hiss was brought down when they found his typewriter and matched it up with the "pumpkin papers."
That idea you talked about at work right here.
In the 1970s, Navy admin exclusively used IBM Selectrics, with the "ball" for official forms and correspondance.
I think maybe Kerry's first Purple Heart "do over" may have been typed on his own typewriter. That may be why he is petrified of signing a Form 180.
The first Purple Heart, which was denied by his CO and medical officer, was mysteriously "resubmitted" months later when the CO and MO had left VN.
This Purple Heart "do over" was Kerry's ticket home. It may have been forged by Kerry himself.
He probably used SecNav Lehman's typwriter revise them later.......
The Comradsky Crockomatic?
Man I was thinking the same thing!
a bump for BUSH and http://www.swiftvets.com/
How John Kerry carried a typewriter and an 8-mm home movie camera with him to Vietnam so he could record his own exaggerated version of his war exploits and film staged reenactments of his "combat actions" to advance his political career
It would have to have been whatever brand was being used per military buys back at any PCS station or camp command. Bulk buy, standard typewriter, etc.
Fighting a Phony War
Is the real aim of the Swift Boat Veterans for Truth to divert attention from Iraq?
WEB EXCLUSIVE
By Eleanor Clift
Newsweek
Updated: 3:51 p.m. ET Aug. 27, 2004
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One member of the group recalled how each of them had been issued a 90-pound sea bag, and Kerry sacrificed 10 pounds of socks and clean underwear to pack a typewriter. At the end of a long day of patrols, Kerry would sit hunched over his typewriter plugging away at who-knows-what, the fellow said, so secretive it seemed subversive. They never understood this aloof figure, and the day that he testified before the Senate Foreign Relations Committee—April 22, 1971—is as powerful a date to these veterans as the Kennedy assassination. They can tell you exactly where they were when they heard Kerry say he had witnessed war crimes sanctioned by commanders in Vietnam.
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The Lehman citations were not done on any model of Selectric that I know about.
Are there typewriter collectors on this thread. I would like to "meet" some of you back channel. One of us might have the machine in question.
I was being coy......
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