- Title: VM-551
- Summary: DOCUMENT EXAMINATION: TRAINING FILM. FBI LABORATORY DOCUMENT SECTION. EXAMINES AND COMPARES SUSPECTS HANDWRITING AND PRINTING. EVIDENCE FROM THIS SECTION OF LABORATORY MAY BE SHOWN IN COURT BY AN EXPERT WITNESS FOR THE FBI EXPERT DOCUMENT EXAMINER WORKS WITH DOCUMENTS TO DETERMINE IF THERE HAS BEEN FORGERY. DOCUMENT FORGERY. EXAMINES BEGINNING STROKES, CONNECTING STROKES, LETTER FORMATIONS, RELATIVE HEIGHTS OF LETTERS. HAND PRINTING AND SCRIPT HANDWRITING ARE EXAMINED. CHECK SIGNATURES. BANK ROBBERY NOTES. TYPEWRITER EXAMINATION OF TYPE WRITTEN EXTORTION NOTE.
- Description:01:00:14 - CU HAND WRITING STATEMENT ON PAPER "HANDWRITING EXAMINATION IS BASED ON SOLE OBSERVATION THAT NO TWO PEOPLE WRITE EXACTLY ALIKE" WRITING IN SCRIPT. DOCUMENT EXAMINER COMPARES HANDWRITING SAMPLES. PERSONAL HANDWRITING CHARACTERISTICS. 01:01:36 - DOCUMENT EXAMINER IN THE DOCUMENT SECTION OF THE FBI LABORATORY. TECHNICIAN SEARCHES THROUGH THE NATIONAL FRADULANT CHECK FILES. FLIPPING THROUGH BOGUS CHECK FILES. 01:02:03 - CU COMPARING TWO SIGNATURES ON CHECKS. 01:02:13 - TECHNICIAN CLOSES FILE CABINET, HANDS EXPERT EXAMINER TO CHECK SIGNATURE SIMILARITIES. 01:02:32 - FBI DOCUMENT EXAMINER RECORDS FINDINGS TALKS INTO TAPE RECORDER 01:02:48 - FEMALE TECHNICIAN WEARING 1960s HEADBAND HANDS CHECK FILE TO DOCUMENT EXAMINER. CU PILE OF HANDWRITING SAMPLES, IE: CHECKS, DRIVER'S LICENSE, RECEIPTS. SAMPLES COMPARED 01:03:02 - CU EXPERT WRITING LETTERS, COPYING PERSON'S HANDWRITING TO COMPARE HANDWRITING PATTERNS OF LOOPS, LINES, PLACEMENT, SPACING, SCRIPT STYLE. DRAWS ARROWS ON SUSPECTED LETTERS. 01:04:15 - CU COMPARING HAND PRINTED BANK ROBBERY NOTES. CU NOTE "GIVE NO ALARM I GOT A GUN GIVE ME ALL THE CASH QUICK!" DOCUMENT EXAMINER COMPARES THE NOTES. COPIES LETTERS ONTO HIS WORK SHEET. COMPARES HANDWRITING CHARACTERISTICS. 01:06:02 - EXAMINERS USES SPECIALLY LIGHTED PHOTOGRAPH OF NOTE PAD BANK ROBBERY NOTE WAS WRITTEN ON. CHECKING INDENTATIONS TO SEE IF NOTE WAS WRITTEN ON THIS NOTE PAD FOUND IN SUSPECT'S HOME. INDENTIFIES AND DATES INKS AND PAPERS. 01:06:45 - EXAMINER PLACES TORN EDGE OF THE BANK ROBBERY NOTE ONTO THE TORN EDGE OF THE NOTE PAD CONFIRMING NOTE CAME FROM THIS NOTE PAD. 01:07:06 - CU EXAMINER'S REPORT 01:07:10 - BLACK WOMAN TAKES DICTATION FROM EXAMINER. AFRICAN AMERICAN OFFICE WORKER. RACIALLY INTEGRATED OFFICE. 01:07:27 - POLICE DETECTIVE ENTERS COMMERCIAL OFFICE. FEMALE OFFICE WORKERS AT THEIR DESKS. TAKES NOTE PAD FROM BRIEF CASE. EXPERT CONDUCTS A TYPEWRITER EXAMINATION. IDENTIFYING WRITER OF A TYPE WRITTEN EXTORTION NOTE. DETECTIVE COPIES EXTORTION NOTE ON TYPEWRITER 01:08:06 - BOTH THE KNOWN AND QUESTIONED EXTORTION NOTES AND ARE RECEIVED IN THE DOCUMENT SECTION OF THE FBI LABORATORY. EXAMINER REFERS TO THE TYPEWRITER STANDARDS FILE TO CONFIRM MAKE AND STYLE OF TYPE OF BOTH NOTES. COMPREHENSIVE TYPEWRITER STANDARDS FILE. PULLS FILE DRAWER OUT AND BRINGS TO DESK TO EXAMINE. 01:09:07 - EXAMINER USING A MAGNIFIER, MAGNIFYING GLASS TO EXAMINE DOCUMENT AND COMPARES THE TWO NOTES. 01:09:25 - CU EXPERT COPYING TYPE WRITTEN KEYS ON PAPER. MARKS DISSIMILARITIES. FINDING THAT THE NOTE WAS NOT WRITTEN ON THAT TYPEWRITER. 01:10:18 - EXAMINER RECORDS FINGINGS ON TAPE RECORDER 01:10:29 - EXAMINER IN COURT TO TESTIFY ON HIS FINDINGS. LARGE MAP OF AMERICA BEHIND HIM. WRITES IN LARGE LETTERS COMPARING CHECK ENDORSEMENT AND ADDRESS OF FORGED CHECK. FRADULENT CHECK IDENTIFICATION EXAMINER MADE IS ADMISSABLE IN COURT
- Collection: Historic Films
- Producer:Historic Films
- Transmission Date:01/01/1969
- Rights:On request
- Decade: 1960s
- File Name: VM-551