[Diogenesis]

Developing Brief Partial Summary of the Forgery Elements of the CBS/Rather Faked letter
Insightful Comments Made by FReepers
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1-- proportional spacing did not exist
2 -- superscripts did not exist
3 - "th" single element did not exist
4 - Smart quotes. Curved apostrophes and quotation marks were not available
5-The blurriness of the copy indicates it was recopied dozens of times, tactic of forgers
6--Signature block. Typical authentic military signature block has name, then rank, then on the next line the person's position. This just has rank beneath the name. 7--Margins. These look like a computer's unjustified default, not the way a person typing would have done it.
8 -- Date usually with three letters
9 - words run over consistent with word processor
10 - Times Roman font did not exist then (per Haas Atlas)
11 - signature looks faked
12 - no errors
13 - no letterhead
14 - exact match for Microsoft Word Processor

[Bonaparte]

Add info in post 28 to your item #8 in list

[JoeA]

You guys are going way overboard with this, and we're going to get burned. Times Roman was designed by Morris Benton in 1931, and became widely available through Merganthaler Linotype shortly after. Superscripts, centering, and proportional spacing was available on IBM selectric based "typesetting' systems at the time. I know because I worked on them. Let's be real careful here and double check our facts, unlike CBS.