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Home Front: Politix
1972 Email Casts Doubt on Bush Guard Service
2004-09-10
(2004-09-09) -- CBS reporter Dan Rather today released the text of a recently discovered email from then-Lt. George W. Bush's Air National Guard commanding officer which casts more doubt upon the military service of the man who would become the 43rd President of the United States.

The revelation of the email comes just hours after questions were raised about the authenticity of typewritten memos from the same officer, shown yesterday by Mr. Rather on 60 Minutes.

According to the previously unseen email message sent in May 1972 by squadron commander Jerry Killian, Lt. Bush phoned Col. Killian because "his internet connection was on the fritz and he couldn't IM me."

Lt. Bush apparently wanted to talk about "how he can get out of coming to drill from now through November."

According to Col. Killian's email, the young Bush wanted to go to Alabama to work as webmaster for a Republican candidate's website.

Mr. Rather said the authenticity of the 32-year-old email has been confirmed by several Nigerian officials who specialize in electronic funds transfer by email.
Posted by:Atomic Conspiracy

#18  Think of the pressure that Scott Ott must be under with Scrappleface. Every day this campaign gets more and more absurd. Will he be able to think more absurdly than the Dimocrits for much longer? Rice wounds, Christmas in Cambodia, Vietnam re-enactments on home movies, MS Word 72, etc. Truth really is stranger than fiction this year.
Posted by: Tom   2004-09-10 9:46:39 PM  

#17  Coming up next on CBS. The discovery of Thomas Jefferson's emails to Nostrodamus...
Posted by: Dan Rather   2004-09-10 9:16:48 PM  

#16  I remember 300bps modems. Heck I remember a 4800bps LAN that, if you knew the magic keystrokes and were on the right part, you could trick into doing a blazing 9600bps.
Posted by: Robert Crawford   2004-09-10 1:54:53 PM  

#15  Think ASR (No paper-tape punch capability) / KSR (With punch) 33's. Telex. TWX. Remember Andromeda Strain? The Wildfire notification that was missed because of a hanging chad between the clapper and the bell? A KSR-33. 110 BAUD. Hot shit. Danced across the room when a long msg came in

LOL!

Help me out here. Thats 110 bits per second, not 110 kbps, right?

And remember, folks: Unix in 1972 was less than 19 months old, that is the original Bell Labs Unix.
Posted by: badanov   2004-09-10 1:29:07 PM  

#14  half, you carder, you.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-09-10 1:25:39 PM  

#13  Kenneth, what's the font?
Posted by: lex   2004-09-10 1:25:35 PM  

#12  a Wool Processor mrs d?
Posted by: half   2004-09-10 1:21:44 PM  

#11  Think ASR (No paper-tape punch capability) / KSR (With punch) 33's. Telex. TWX. Remember Andromeda Strain? The Wildfire notification that was missed because of a hanging chad between the clapper and the bell? A KSR-33. 110 BAUD. Hot shit. Danced across the room when a long msg came in.
Posted by: .com   2004-09-10 11:56:57 AM  

#10  Think ASR (No paper-tape punch capability) / KSR (With punch) 33's. Telex. TWX. Remember Andromeda Strain? The Wildfire notification that was missed because of a hanging chad between the clapper and the bell? A KSR-33. 110 BAUD. Hot shit. Danced across the room when a long msg came in.
Posted by: .com   2004-09-10 11:56:28 AM  

#9  I remember building my first computer form a discarded Jacquard loom.
Posted by: Mrs. Davis   2004-09-10 11:45:26 AM  

#8  Punched Tape? You had punched tape? When I was growing up we loaded WordStar 54 with Hollerith cards and we glad to have 'em.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-09-10 11:38:45 AM  

#7  Shipman, Tape drive? You had tape drives? We had to load MS-Word 71 from about 60 spools of punched tape.

Tape drives would have been heaven on earth!

(and the damn thing still crashed too damn often!)
Posted by: CrazyFool   2004-09-10 10:47:32 AM  

#6  Remember how long it took to load Office for CPM from the tape drive? Now those were the days.
Posted by: Shipman   2004-09-10 7:37:46 AM  

#5  WashPost actually put the possible forgery information on the front page.
Posted by: mhw   2004-09-10 6:30:01 AM  

#4  What a total crock, everyone knows that Gordon Liddy was the Alabama GOP's webmaster in '72.
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-09-10 1:09:34 AM  

#3  Forgot the credits:

This message prepared with MS Word 72
Posted by: Atomic Conspiracy   2004-09-10 12:32:08 AM  

#2  ScrappleFace nails it again!
Posted by: Korora   2004-09-10 12:27:17 AM  

#1  perfect!!
Posted by: Long Hair Republican   2004-09-10 12:27:05 AM  

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