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Someone on one of the other threads said that typewriter balls had various options and one of them had a superscript "th."

The issue really boils down to the "spacing" if I understand this correctly. I don't know enough about that to either explain it or not explain it.

What I know is that those are names, places, locations, details, reports, etc., mentioned in these 5 memos that are very specific and related to events of 32 years ago.

A recent forgery would have an extremely difficult time creating all those people and places without slipping up. The PRESIDENT would notice it.

I'm fine with people pursuing the forgery idea. I think what it will have to be, if it's true, is that they must have changed a few words off original real memos.

What I know is that those are names, places, locations, details, reports, etc., mentioned in these 5 memos that are very specific and related to events of 32 years ago.

That is information that could be gleaned from the records released by Bush earlier this year. I know that typewriters were capable of typing superscript, but were they capable of typing reduced font superscript. My understanding is that if you wanted to type a superscript, for a footnote, for instance, the typewriter ball would merely adjust up 1/2 space and type it above the line. But to reduce the font for the purpose of typing a "th" in a reduced font size? I don't remember any typewriter with that capability. You would have to have a single ball with all numbers and letters available in both regular and reduced font size as well as separate additional combinationletters of "th" "st" "rd", etc.

Were those machines available in 1972? That's one question. Another question would be whether, if in fact they were commercially available, they were actually purchased by the Texas National guard for standard interoffice memorandums?

But when push comes to shove, even if it were all true, Bush did nothing criminal and at worst he was a slacker. I dare say all of us were slackers when we were that age if we thought we could get away with it. At least Bush didn't work for the North Vietnamese Commies in 1972 like Kerry did.

If you look at the Bush docs that Bush released, none of those documents appear to contain any memorandums with the reduced font superscript when typing something like 111th. If you notice the non-superscripted memos from Killian's file, there is always a space between the numbers and the letters, i.e., 111 th. If you use a modern word processor it will automatically turn the th into a reduced font size superscript if it immediately follows the numbers.

If the reduced font was available, why is it that the only documents that have them are the recently released Killian documents and then only half of those contain the superscript and the other half contain the non-supercript but have a space between the letters and the numbers?