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For anyone who wants absolutely to be convinced, including those at DU who have Word 2003, please do the following:

Open Word.

Maintain everything else in default, but set font to Times News Roman 11.

Go to item 4 in the suppose memo of 01 August 1972, where the subject is the suspension of flight status. This can be found for instance at

http://www.clownposse.org/forum/news.asp?news_id=203

(scroll down).

Now type:

4. On recommendation of Harris, I also suggested that we fill this critical billet with a more seasoned pilot from the list of qualified Vietnam pilots that have rotated. Recommendations were received but not confirmed.

Put two spaces between “4.” and “On” and two spaces between the two sentences; that is, between “rotated.” and the capital R of the second sentence.

Now, compare the spacing, line breaks, the vertical distance between the three lines, etc. Line up letters vertically. Do what you want, the two are the same, despite the purported 32 years that separate them.

But now the kerning punch line.

In the Microsoft Word document, go to the word “fill” and put your cursor between the “f" and the “i”. What do you see? The cursor cuts the top of the “f" and there is a bit of the f that you can see to the right of the cursor line – the f hangs over the space of the i, which as many, many have pointed out is a matter of kerning, and is a property of typesetting or the post-Adode postscript era. Now sit and think about the two facts: letters line up perfectly between "1972" and what we know today, and kerning changes the spacing between letters in documents today. Sit and think. The Freepers have already caught on.

And now for those at DU who do not yet get it:

(1) The probability that a typewritten document in 1972 would replicate – in letter spacing, line breaks, etc. – the Microsoft Word rendition of the same sentence in 2004 is, as the statisticians would say, near zero.

(2) Due to the spacing adjustment that would accompany kerning, and due to the zero probability that Killian would be typesetting his memos, there is a vanishing probability that something written in 1972 would match so precisely with Microsoft Word.

(3) So it’s all Bill Gates’s fault. He and Rove are controlling the world.