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There’ve been some interesting posts picking up this sub-thread. Here’s another historical perspective from Your Official Old Fart.

As it happened, I was one of the lucky scientist/engineers at the foremost acoustics consultancy of those days, Bolt Beranek & Newman Inc. of Cambridge MA, in whose lab the famous “18-and-a-half-minute gap” tape was analyzed at the behest of Judge John Sirica.

It was our ironclad and incontrovertible finding, which we backed up publicly, that the erasure had been done deliberately by hand (not footpedal) — using the FWD, BACKWD, RECORD, and STOP pushbuttons on a particular Uher-brand tape recorder (one accessible only to Nixon and his Executive Assistant, the haplessly loyal Rose Mary Woods), that constituted the first proof that there was evidence tampering by “someone” (never proven who) at the White House.