When Montgomery (Don Porter) is taking pictures of the documents, the scene shows a view through the lens as he supposedly focuses the image. But the camera is a 110 Instamatic; it has a fixed-focus lens and can't adjust focus.
Hillary supposedly dies from strangulation in about fifteen seconds. In reality, a person might lose consciousness in that short time, but death would take a much longer time. In addition, a typical healthy person would not drop calmly to the ground, but would struggle and flail to survive.
They use the word libelous when referring to a TV broadcast, but libel applies to printed statements while slander is the term for spoken statements.