People have started emailing me the link to this page, in which a professor with a background in literature and creative writing attempts to argue the fraudulent Killian memos could have been typed on some sort of mythical typewriter that was available at a Texas Air National Guard base in 1972.

The creator of this site does not provide any of his sources, or the documents he created to produce his screen shots, and the analysis seems to consist primarily of highly magnified shots of deformed characters that have been faxed or copied numerous times.

I guess it would be too much to expect people like Professor Hailey to remember that Lt. Col. Jerry Killian’s secretary has identified the typewriter in use at the office as an Olympia manual machine, with no proportional fonts.

She also admitted she had not typed the memos. But don’t let that stand in the way of arguing that they’re genuine, professor.

I was contacted by a reporter for the Boston Globe asking my opinion about this, so don’t be surprised to see it show up in mainstream media as a last ditch, straw-grasping attempt to salvage something out of this fiasco.

UPDATE at 9/30/04 2:03:36 pm:

That didn’t take long. Professor Hailey’s analysis is a fraud.

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