It's worse than that.
Times New Roman is a fully proportional font. This means that each letter has its own customized width, just as we see all the time today.
Not even the best of the old typewriters could produce something like that. IBM's Executive has four pre-formed widths. The fonts were customized to fit one of those four. So for example the 'i' would be wider than on a true proportional font because the 'r' would share the same width.
I notice that a lot of people have been talking about Selectrics, but a Selectric would provide much higher print quality than I see in any of the memos or forms of the period. They used old-fashioned electric typewriters with typebars, not balls.
Other than running memos through a typesetter, there's just no way you could create that kind of type in those days.
What amazes me is the stupidity of the people who forged these documents. I've never forged a document before in my life, and I would have known to duplicate the typeface and so on.
I at least like to think that at the highest level of political campaigning somebody out there had a brain.
Guess not.
That alone is enough for me to be absolutely appalled at the idea of Kerry for President. Someone who selects a campaign staff this stupid deserves what they get.
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And running them through a typesetter would not have yielded such a good fit for Times New Roman.
Indeed, even if one had a goofy desire to use a proportional font, one could at least have used something obscure. If the documents used a proportionally-spaced font that was untraceable, one could argue that, for some goofy reason, Killian had them typeset. Bizarre, but not impossible. But there's no way they'd be typeset in a font that so perfectly matches one that didn't yet exist.