Dear Mr Hunt...

[John Iacoletti]

"As a discipline routinely accepted under Frye (Frye v. United States, 54 App. D.C. 46, 293 F. 1013, 1014 [1923]), forensic document examination has been consistently accepted in the courts in spite of the challenges generated by the Daubert decision in 1993 (Daubert v. Merrell Dow Pharmaceuticals, 509 U.S. 579 [1993]). Published research demonstrates the validity of the expertise and supports the principle of handwriting individuality. Published standards ensure consistency in methodology. Document examiners in both public (local, state, federal, and international) and private laboratories use these standards. Ongoing academic research continues to support the forensic document examination community in strengthening the scientific basis for handwriting comparison."

https://archives.fbi.gov/archives/about-us/lab/forensic-science-communications/fsc/oct2009/review/2009_10_review02.htm

From the same document:

The Technical Working Group for Documents, now the Scientific Working Group for Questioned Documents (SWGDOC), was formed in 1997 to address the need for standards in the forensic document community.

[Tim Nickerson]

From the same document:

The Technical Working Group for Documents, now the Scientific Working Group for Questioned Documents (SWGDOC), was formed in 1997 to address the need for standards in the forensic document community.

So what?

[John Iacoletti]

So what?

Aren't we talking about examinations conducted way before 1997?

[Thomas Graves]

So what?

Tim,

Iacoletti thinks that back in 1964 any high school graduate could have called himself a handwriting analyst and testified as an expert witness in a legal proceeding.

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

[Tim Nickerson]

Aren't we talking about examinations conducted way before 1997?

Yes we are.  SWGDOC was formed to address the lack of a universal standard. That's not saying that there were no standards prior to 1997.

[Jerry Freeman]

Iacoletti thinks that back in 1964 any high school graduate could have called himself a handwriting analyst and testified as an expert witness in a legal proceeding.

You had to be a high school graduate?
 

[Walt Cakebread]

Tim,

Iacoletti thinks that back in 1964 any high school graduate could have called himself a handwriting analyst and testified as an expert witness in a legal proceeding.

-- Mudd Wrassler Tommy 

Handwriting analysis is more of an art than a science....    It may be very difficult to detect a forged signature because a forger can concentrate on just the signature but not many forgers can write a message and fool someone  into accepting that the note as genuine.....as written by the person who signed that note.

In the case of the "Dear Mr Hunt" note.... There's no doubt in my mind that Lee Oswald wrote the note.....