James A. Black
Document examiner retained by Robert and Ryan Wood, who concluded in 1998 that a purported Truman letter was likely typed on an Underwood Standard.
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James A. Black
James A. Black is a document examiner retained by Robert M. Wood and Ryan S. Wood who concluded, on 13 November 1998, that a purported Truman letter in the MJ-12 corpus was likely typed on an Underwood Standard typewriter [S1].
His finding sits unreconciled against skeptical analyses identifying a Smith Corona model on the same document — a different machine entirely. No source located in this research reconciles the two examiners, which leaves an open technical question rather than a settled one in either direction. Compare Peter Tytell, the examiner engaged by the advocates' own side who reached a negative conclusion.
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[S1] "Kevin Randle, Case MJ-12 (2018), excerpt" / https://dokumen.pub / Accessed 2026-08-30
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