The Smoking Memo (Revisited Again)
I know the regulars are getting tired of this flashing graphic, but there are still plenty of people coming here from various sources wanting to see it for the first time; so once again here’s our animation, alternating between the PDF version of the Microsoft Word document I created, and the CBS News “original.”
Also see this entry, for a similar comparison with another one of the CBS Killian memos: Another Document Experiment: 19 May 1972.
And here is a high resolution version, prepared by one of our readers who is a PhD researcher in image registration (alignment) in the Department of Radiology at a very well-known university, who applied a customized computer program to find the best rotation, alignment, and scaling for the two images—producing an even more perfect match: Link to image.
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