It's remotely possible that the documents aren't forged but to me extremely unlikely. In another thread, someone mentioned that at least one of the documents has a bit of superscript font in it, the kind you would automatically be "auto-text-ed" in by Microsoft Word unless you tell it to do otherwise.
Specifically in the May 4, 1972, memo, the second bullet point says:
“2. Report to 111th F.L.S. administrative officer for schedule of appointment and additional instructions. Examination will be conducted in duty status.”
The “th” on “111th” is in SUPERSCRIPT. The likelihood of an Air National Guard unit having a state-of-the-art typewriter that could type superscript – assuming such a thing even existed in 1972 – is slim to none. Everything they have is hand-me-downs from the active duty Air Force, like, for example, the F-102’s by that date. Chances are that National Guard clerks had only manual typewriters that didn’t have this capability. I’m not even aware of any electric typewriters from that era that had such a capability.
Even if they did, there is no reason on such plain, straightforward memos for a clerk to bother with superscripting the “th” when “111th” in all the same font is perfectly acceptable.
Somebody came up with this piece of crap on Microsoft Word and forgot about Microsoft's auto-text default on superscript-able words.
The spirit of Michael Moore and Jayson Blair…
Agree with your comments. Everything about these documents stinks of forgery - beginning with the wording and the typography. Several former military officers have posted that the abbreviations and format are all wrong.
Said this will be the end of Don Hewitt at 60 Minutes and likely tarnish Rather forever.
He's going into the detail that he's obviously read about on the web.
Good post, good info.