However, please refer to this link:
http://www.cbsnews.com/htdocs/pdf/BushGuardaugust18.pdf
Since it is a PDF doc, enlarge the doc and look at the letter "y" in the word obviously (line1) and compare that "y" in the word today (line 5)
Putting aside the debate what kind of IBM typewriter it was, does this difference in font indicate that, at a minumum, this doc was altered?
By Whom?
Why?
Altered by Killian?
To me the difference in the "y"s is more like the distortion you get when you photocopy a document and/or fax it and/or scan it.
"Since it is a PDF doc, enlarge the doc and look at the letter "y" in the word obviously (line1) and compare that "y" in the word today (line 5)"
Hmm. Looking at a lot of the letters, I see lots of discrepancies in appearance on different lines. Could be an artifact of the copying process. I don't know how many times this thing was photocopied. Again, I'd really like to see a type sample from an Executive with this particlar font. According to the ad in a message above, there were 6 fonts offered in 1953. By 1971, I'd guess there were more, plus the foreign language and specialized ones.
For those who are talking about Times Roman, the fonts used on PCs were often derived from existing fonts used in business. You see very similar fonts all over the place. Every typewriter had some variation of a serif font like that and offered a san serif font. No big deal.
Was the doc altered? Man, are you guys making me feel old!
You young folks are giving me a good chuckle today.
In "the old days", the only way to fix a typo was by altering the document.
If you saw the typo before you pulled your paper out, you erased it, then lined up the letters as well as you could to type the correct letter.
If you saw your typo after you pulled your paper out, you erased it, then put your paper back in the closest machine and lined it up as well as you could, then typed the correct letter. Unless you were a professional, everybody's papers had those type of corrections.
The big, misaligned "y" adds to the authenticity of the document, rather than detracts from it.