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That's it. That's the entire death toll. | That's it. That's the entire death toll. | ||
You might wonder: could records have been lost? Could sixteen deaths have gone unreported? It's a fair question — and researchers at [ | You might wonder: could records have been lost? Could sixteen deaths have gone unreported? It's a fair question — and researchers at [[Searching for Vindication]] actually went and checked. They traveled to the National Archives in Atlanta and photographed every page of the daily logs kept by Life Saving Station #10, the Coast Guard station located less than half a mile from the bridge. These logs documented every rescue and recovery operation on that stretch of river from 1881 to 1972. The researchers went through every entry from May 1928 through December 1939 — a full decade past the bridge's completion. | ||
Nothing. No mass drowning. No construction catastrophe involving sixteen men. Not even close. | Nothing. No mass drowning. No construction catastrophe involving sixteen men. Not even close. | ||
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'''"He was young and misremembered"''' — As an adult, he said the vision was fulfilled. He claimed his mother wrote it down at the time. At what point does "he was young" stop being an explanation and start being a cover story? | '''"He was young and misremembered"''' — As an adult, he said the vision was fulfilled. He claimed his mother wrote it down at the time. At what point does "he was young" stop being an explanation and start being a cover story? | ||
'''"The 1937 flood destroyed the records"''' — The Coast Guard log books survive. Complete archived copies of the Jeffersonville newspapers survive. This excuse is simply false, and the research done by Searching for Vindication documents it thoroughly. | '''"The 1937 flood destroyed the records"''' — The Coast Guard log books survive. Complete archived copies of the Jeffersonville newspapers survive. This excuse is simply false, and the research done by [[Searching for Vindication]] documents it thoroughly. | ||
'''"It was actually about the Sydney Harbour Bridge"''' — Branham specifically named the Municipal Bridge in the earliest recorded retelling, in 1948. Of the 16 deaths during Sydney's construction, only 2 involved falling from the bridge — Branham said he saw 16 people fall. The Sydney Harbour Bridge also spans an ocean inlet, not a river. And it opened in 1932, which puts Branham's vision around 1910 if you subtract twenty-two years — when he was barely one year old. None of this works. | '''"It was actually about the Sydney Harbour Bridge"''' — Branham specifically named the Municipal Bridge in the earliest recorded retelling, in 1948. Of the 16 deaths during Sydney's construction, only 2 involved falling from the bridge — Branham said he saw 16 people fall. The Sydney Harbour Bridge also spans an ocean inlet, not a river. And it opened in 1932, which puts Branham's vision around 1910 if you subtract twenty-two years — when he was barely one year old. None of this works. | ||
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If this prophecy was false — whether fabricated or genuinely confused and then misrepresented as fulfilled — the question that follows isn't a comfortable one: what else was? | If this prophecy was false — whether fabricated or genuinely confused and then misrepresented as fulfilled — the question that follows isn't a comfortable one: what else was? | ||
----''For more detailed primary source research on this topic, the Searching for Vindication website documents the archival work referenced throughout this article.'' | ----''For more detailed primary source research on this topic, the [[Searching for Vindication]] website documents the archival work referenced throughout this article.'' | ||