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I seen text like that before, but not in a word processor. It was something like "Mathcad" so you could print up complex formulas. Not very likely to be used to intentionally stick a red herring into a forgery.

Regards,
GtG

I really hate to point this out, BUT Microsoft Word puts the superscript "th" in the text so that the top of the letters is in line with the rest of the text. The CBS "original" uses text of the same height but positioned with half of the text above the top of the rest of the line. That shows up as a blinking effect in your animation. I seen text like that before, but not in a word processor. It was something like "Mathcad" so you could print up complex formulas. Not very likely to be used to intentionally stick a red herring into a forgery.

Regards, GtG

I'm not sure what you're getting at Gandalf, but don't be shy about questioning anyone's conclusions on this matter, especially mine.

The prevailing assumption is that no manual typewriter then available would have been able to create such a document, which uses proportional spacing on the font.

The IBM Selectric could create proportional spacing, but only on certain fonts. And while it came to the market in 1961, I have yet to see anyone suggest that a lowly ANG in Alabama could have afforded one.

Further, to my knowledge IBM Selectrics didn't have Superscript capability. Here are links to fonts available thru the mid-1970s for the Selectric This is my source for that assumption :

10 Pitch Type Styles: Advocate, Bookface Academic 72, Delegate, Orator, Courier 72, Pica 72, Prestige Pica 72

12 Pitch Type Styles: Adjutant, Artisan 12, Courier 12 Italic, Scribe, Prestige Elite, Courier 12, Elite 72, Letter Gothic