I've said this before, but it needs repeating: not only were the "th's" in CBS's memos superscripted and small-font, they were also in TIMES. NEW. FRICKING. ROMAN.

Or as the tech-savvy Mr. Rather insisted on calling it in his interview, "New Times Roman." Which, we have discussed, was either nonexistent or very exotic at that time. This Air Force base didn't just shell out for the fancy equipment that let you use the little TH's--it also shelled out for the fancy proportional font Times equipment which may or may not have existed.

So regardless of whether that singular shmear after "111th" was typed with a special IBM happy fun ball that does superscripts, that particular document is in courier or in some monospaced font.

In other words it has exactly shit to do with the CBS memo, because it never could have produced a Times New Roman small superscript th.

To convince me this document has a chance of even possibly being authentic, CBS needs to prove that:

A. There existed in 1972 the technology to do small-point superscripts in Times New Roman;

B. That technology was actually employed at the AFB at the relevant time.

C. And that that technology was actually used to create this memo, and not some other technology like MICROSOFT WORD 97.

And maybe then we can begin talking about the centering, Kerning, the fact that a retired General was supposedly coming back to the base and bitching about Bush, the fact that only Word 97 has so far produced an exact match for the document, the sloppy nomenclature, the weird signatures, the deceptive sourcing, etc, etc, etc.

Ace: I beleive it's been documented that, technically, you could change the ball out to an 8pt ball along with some other fairly convoluted steps to produce the superscript, but why on earth would anybody go through all that for an internall 'CYA' memo to a personal file? To me, the exact centering of the header is the telling factor that no one can explain away.

Sorry... I didn't read your earlier post where you outlined the process.

Here

http://peterduncan.net/CBS_Documents.html

Has sample output from a Selectric Composer and the 'Executive. (Neither is the right spacing.)