About 14 months too late, I have put up on the web an accounting of how I knew enough to spot the Killian memos as fakes: "How Did Buckhead Know? Clues for the Clueless."
Some lies, it seems, will never die.
I don't attempt to tell the whole story, just part of my part. It's pretty crude in the web authoring department - semi-hopeless newbie here. Only through the dumbed down facilities of .mac am I able to muster even this lame effort.
Anyways! Buckhead makes a great point. I was about 2 weeks into a desktop publishing class at college and I knew these were fakes (I had just learned about proprtional spaced and monospace fonts that week). I can't believe how much "wanting" a story to be true can blind someone so completely. I mean, this was the poorest forgery ever to come down the pike (hell, they didn't even bother to take it off the DEFAULT FONT!). Makes me wonder...if they would have used a monospaced font (remember the one NewsMax used to use for printer-friendly article versions), would this smear have worked?
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