[Gaffer]

Yep.....the type was from a particular model Type-Ball off an IBM Selectric typewriter that wasn’t in production at the time of when the letter was written or something like that.

[Campion]

It was in a proportional font, and supposed to be from 1967 or something. There were a few (very expensive) typesetting machines available at that time that could do that, but they wouldn't have been used to type up orders and reports in an Air Force reserve office.

Either the documents were very poorly executed fakes, or they were relating the truth, but weren't the originals, but a word-processed retype of the originals.

[ETCM]

Yep.....the type was from a particular model Type-Ball off an IBM Selectric typewriter that wasn’t in production at the time of when the letter was written or something like that.

It was an MS Word document, repeatedly copied to make it look old. Freeper Buckhead was the first to notice the proportional spacing, justification and font didn't match period typewriters, and reproduced the EXACT document in short order using MS Word. Following Buckhead's lead, others were easily able to recreate Dan Rather's Rather obvious forgery.