I mostly read, but not comment, and I wasn’t signed up in 2004, but I did read it. I remember someone’s comment, that it was actually reasonable that proportionally spaced fonts could have been used in a 1972 typewriter. That IBM made such typewriters, and the same technology found its way into circa 2004 Word. Also, that it would not be unusual for a high ranking officer to have had some extra money in the budget to spend and buy something extravagant, like a high end IBM typewriter.
Here is the instruction manual for the Selectric Composer from 1969. The Selectric Composer was released in 1966. https://archive.org/details/ibm-selectric-composer-training-guide/mode/2up
Yeah, that line of argument was rather quickly debunked by reality.
Oh, and in the end, it was admitted that the document wasn’t from 1972 at all anyway.
Reasonable?! That's a stretch! Maybe "theoretically possible," at best. Way too much money for Guard memos. And the secretary said she didn't type that memo anyway, and she was the only one who typed Killian's memos.
it would not be unusual for a high ranking officer to have had some extra money in the budget to spend and buy something extravagant, like a high end IBM typewriter
Yet no evidence that he did actually buy such a rare typewriter, and lots of evidence that he did not.
And in addition to proportional font, the other glaring defect in the fraudulently created memo was the superscripted "th" following a number.
Methinks thou dost protest too much. It was a slam-dunk case of fraud that ended several "journalism" careers.