ARE NATIONAL GUARD/60 MINUTES MEMOS FORGERIES?
That’s the theory galluping around the internet today – see Drudge, CNSNews and the first place I saw this, Powerline. It seems that new memoranda, which you can find at CBS’s site, are dated 1972 but use a proportional font more common to today’s Microsoft Word than to a typewriter in a 1972 Texas Air National Guard office. CBS describes the documents as “previously unseen documents from Killian’s personal file.” Killian was a Lt. Col. with the Texas Air National Guard. CBS says the docs must be authentic, because “60 Minutes consulted a handwriting analyst and document expert who believes the material is authentic.” Who was the expert, Terry McAuliffe? Take a look at one of these documents, here. You will notice the superscript and smaller “th” in “187th in Alabama”. That would be possible with sophisticated typsetting equipment in 1972, but unlikely for a desktop Air Force typewriter. So, we did our own analysis. Compare this document that I created using Microsoft Word and Times Ne
