Part 7 . . . Links to: Part 1 .. Part 2 .. Part 3 .. Part 4 .. Part 5.. Part 6

This video reviews parts 1 through 6, and continues on to show the truly amazing alignment of the print blemishes on the Mikado Review and Zodiac letter to the editor on the October 31, 1969, Stanford Daily.

To review where we are at:

1. The Mikado review in the Stanford Daily was written by an aficionado of the show’ but we don’t know who wrote it.
2. The review has many layout mistakes, cut off letters, bad spacing, and white blemishes on each of the article’s two columns; almost like it was made in a hurry or under duress.
3. It shares the page with a review for an album named “The Electric Zodiac” but in the photo “Electric” is missing, leaving just “The Zodiac.”
4. The “spots” or blemishes on the Mikado review also appear on page 3 on the back side of the same piece of paper. Page 3 also shows a third mark several inches above those on the Mikado article. Closer examination of page 4 reveals the spot is there too, it was just hard to see. I posited the theory that someone poured a solvent on the page in the archived bound volume of the Daily. If so, that would be the second instance of an archive volume being modified in a Stanford student publication.
5. The Mikado review has two spots on it, one on each of the two columns of the article. The review is on page four, and the spots are also seen on the other side of the paper, page three. Since it was assumed it was a solvent that caused this, page two was examined. It did not look like it had spots, but in the event the blemish was very light and unable to be seen with the naked eye, that page was brought into Photoshop and aligned with page three and four. It was then discovered that the main spot landed exactly over a short letter to the editor about…. The Zodiac Killer.
6. The marks were not caused by a solvent, but were made on the printing press–first appearing on the Mikado Review. The blemishes are the result of a “crushed print blanket,” and if someone want to intentionally damage a print blanket in a specific place, that would be easily accomplished.

Stay tuned for more, coming soon.

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