[Nataku X]

I made this with Word, default settings, except that the font was 11 points instead of 12. Here's the original, then the Word version. I didn't quite have the time to resize the Word screencap to the exact size but you can tell by comparing the letters that it's a perfect match.

[Duffboy]

Great job, Steve..!
I am awed by all you people!

[RobRoy]

Hey cool, they had superscript back then!

[Sola Veritas]

Outstanding work of illustrating the forgery. Now that I can see a "modern" word processing job verses a purported typewriter, it is clear that these documents were not done on a typewriter extant to that timeframe. These are forgeries. CBS should be sued.

[Bonaparte]

If you do the re-size and successive photocopying, will you ping me?

[Dr.Deth]

Sorry, you didn't get a perfect match on this one, IMO. Look at the top of the number '1' in particular. Horizontal on the original, 45 degree on the MS Word. Also, the capital 'W' in 'IAW' and the '2' in '1972' show considerable discrepancy. Perhaps it is authentic, or degraded, or just a variation on the font, but this one is not yet disproved by any stretch.

[RobRoy]

Sorry, but the "th" after the 111 are clearly in the wrong place and the wrong shape. The one in Word is clearly wider and situated lower. The plane of the horizontal line in the "t" of the superscript is below the top of the 111 in the word document. It is clearly above the 111 in the original document.

Of course, it may mean they used word perfect or set up the superscript different than you did. 8^>

[Wolfstar]

The real tip-off of a possible forgery is the superscript 'th' in 111th. With the possible exception of the IBM Selectric II typewriter, which had been introduced in 1971, no typewriter in common use that I know of could do superscript (or subscript) circa 1972.

Here is an extremely relevant quote from the Wikipedia online encyclopedia about the history of the IBM Selectric:

"The Selectric II had a lever (at the top left of the 'carriage') that allowed characters to be shifted up to a half space to the left (for inserting a word one character longer or shorter in place of a deleted mistake), whereas the Selectric I did not."

I believe the the 't' and 'h' characters could be shifted up to simulate superscript in the early Selectric II's, but it was not a true superscript as shown in this sample: ^th

However, I believe true superscript did become available on the Selectric type balls at some point, although I'm not 100% certain of this. If true superscript was ever available on typewriters, it would only have been on those which used the type ball technology. I have been unable to find info online as to if/when true superscript was introduced.

[RogueIsland]

Interesting post you've made. Anybody who has worked with type knows how hard it is to sometimes even match up the same typeface from the same foundary across different formats and platforms. The chance that everything from typeface to leading just happen to result in a formatting that lines up perfectly between the typewriter and the word processor (look at the period under the l, the period after teh F.L.S. over the i, etc) would appear to me to be very unlikely.