[Koblenz]

People, can we POSSIBLY post all the facts on this thread????? We don't need a hundred threads with ONE THOUGHT on them. Thanks.

OK, here goes, based on what I've read.

1. The documents in question match MS-Word perfectly. If you type in MS Word, the character spacing, etc. is the same as it is in Word.

2. Some typewriters in the early 1970s had special characters that did the "th", "nd", and "rd" as superscript. Some of these were special keys. Other times, you'd have to change the ball to an 8 point or 10 point ball.

3. Some typewriters had proportional spacing.

4. Nonetheless, no one to this day has been able to use an old typewriter and come up with a document that is substantially similar to the documents in question.

5. What many people don't realize was difficult to do, but was indeed very difficult, was to center things properly on a typewriter. Especially with proportional fonts. If you had a courier font, then it was simply a matter of counting characters and dividing by 2 to see how many characters you needed to be from center. But with proportional fonts, this is indeed very difficult. You'd basically have to type the text on another piece of paper, and then measure it, and then divide by 2 and indent the proper distance from the center. Centering is a much bigger issue than the superscript in my opinion. Not because it wasn't theoretically possible, but because it required so much legwork that it would have not been worth the effort to get it this exact.

6. One of the generals referred to in the letter, General Staudt, had retired 18 months or so before the memo. CBS claims he still exerted influence. Yeah, right. If he was dead, CBS would still defend their memos. Their defense is pure idiocy. Really.

7. The PO Box was valid, but was not for that particular unit or division.

8. CBS is in too deep now. They'll keep on defending it no matter what. It doesn't matter what turns up now. They've gone this deep, and they're beyond the point of no return. They're not going to retract now. It's like Michael Douglas in Falling Down.

I'd love a few more clarifications to the list...

[sevry]

I'd love a few more clarifications to the list...

And click on the stuff from the 11th, too. It's a lot to get through.

[Mike Fieschko]

OK, here goes, based on what I've read.

Apologies if this has already been posted:

Evidence Against Rather: FR Forgery Fact Sheet (draft final) For Review.

I think that it's going up on a separate web site tonight or tomorrow.

[tuesday afternoon]

Centering is a much bigger issue than the superscript in my opinion.

I'm not positive but I think the secretary said she left-justified headings and sigs.