Wikipedia talk:Today's featured article/August 23, 2024

Possible tweaks

Hi SchroCat and Gog, three minor suggestions...

found the papers in the firm's files. - "the firm" is not defined. Possibly change to 'his father's firm's files'? (if character count allows)
ZIP Code in a paper dated - in a letter/letterhead?
and the use of typeball that had not - needs 'a' inserted before "typeball"? JennyOz (talk) 08:16, 21 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sorry SchroCat I should have pinged you, I assumed you'd be watching this. JennyOz (talk) 02:59, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Hi JennyOz, th page is locked now and the character count is already at the max, so I’ve tweaked a little below to make those changes. Cheers - SchroCat (talk) 05:09, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Thanks SchroCat, you will get (or prompt Gog to if he gets back in time) an admin (Dank or Wehwalt maybe) to copy your new blurb over to project page before bot adds the older version to main page? JennyOz (talk) 06:02, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

Sure, Gog the Mild, Dank, Wehwalt, would one of you be able to swap the below version into the right page please? Thanks - SchroCat (talk) 07:05, 22 August 2024 (UTC)[reply]

In 1993, about 350 documents were forged by Lawrence X. Cusack III. These papers were supposedly from, or related to, John F. Kennedy. Some of them alleged that Kennedy had a secret first marriage and dealings with organized crime, had bribed FBI director J. Edgar Hoover, and paid hush money to Marilyn Monroe. Cusack, son of a lawyer who had dealings with Monroe's family, claimed to have found the papers in his father’s firm's files. He sold them for $6-7 million. One of the buyers suggested showing them to Seymour Hersh, who was writing The Dark Side of Camelot (1997). Hersh began incorporating them into his book and proposed a television documentary. Checks by the networks uncovered flaws in the forgeries. These included the use of a ZIP Code in a letterhead dated two years before the ZIP Code was introduced, and the use of a typeball that had not yet been invented. Cusack was convicted of fraud, sentenced to nearly ten years in prison and ordered to refund the money to the buyers. (Full article...)