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The video below contains an error in that it indicates that there were no fatalities in the building of the Municipal Bridge.  This is in error as, based on research performed by [[Searching for Vindication]], there were 2 fatalities in the construction of the bridge as noted below.

|[[Image:Tab30.jpg|right|thumb|250px|The George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge as seen from Jeffersonville, with Louisville, Kentucky in the background]]

A summary of these fatalities includes:

#12 people died working on a pier foundation when a caisson flooded,

#4 people died when a wooden beam broke in a different pier caisson  

#21 workers died when a construction crane was dislodged by wind, causing the supporting truss and 41 workers to fall into the Ohio river.  

In William Branham's vision, 16 people died when they fell off the bridge.  With the Big Four Bridge, 16 people died working in caissons under the bridge while 21 died falling off the bridge.  All of these fatalities occurred before William Branham was born.

We understanding that William Branham took Pastor Pearry Green underneath the Municipal bridge, and pointed out the exact section of the bridge that fell into the river.  The problem is not in Pearry Green's retelling of the story - as he did not grow up in Jeffersonville and had no reason to doubt William Branham - the problem lies with William Branham's recollection of the facts and the prophecy. Again, there is no historic indication that any section or portion of the Municipal Bridge fell into the Ohio river.

=Excuses for the failed vision brought on by [[Cognitive Dissonance|cognitive dissonance]]=

If you don't know what [[Cognitive Dissonance|cognitive dissonance]] is, please read our article on the subject. You might find that you are suffering from it!

One of the results of [[Cognitive Dissonance|cognitive dissonance]] is that dissonance reduction will often cause the sufferer to look for a simple and easy way to ignore the fact that is causing the dissonance.  As a result, quite intelligent people will often settle for answers that are not reasonable, but allow the sufferer to ignore the real issue.

==William Branham was young when he had the vision==

If William Branham was young when he had the vision, perhaps he simply forgot it.  Kids forget a lot of things and get memories messed up.  That would explain why the vision was not fulfilled properly.

1. Why would God give a vision to a child but not give him the ability to remember it.

2. William Branham said that they wrote it down.

3. William Branham said, '''as an adult''', that the vision was fulfilled.  The problem is that he is attesting to something that was not true.  He said that 16 men died on the bridge, but they didn't.

This is the theory floated by [[VoGR]] in an attempt to refute the failure of the municipal bridge vision.  However, that theory was destroyed by the article on the subject on the [[Searching for Vindication]] website.  While it is true that some archives were damaged, complete archived copies of the Jeffersonville newspapers and the Coast Guard log books remain preserved.

Also, does anyone actually believe that the wives, children and parents of the families of 16 men who died would allow their memories to be forgotten?  There isn't the slightest chance that they would.

This excuse basically says that only one small element of the vision was true - that it took place 22 years after he had it.  But this would mean that virtually everything about the vision was false.

 

 

[[Cognitive Dissonance]] drives people to find explanations, even if things have to be stretched beyond the realms of reasonableness.  The thought that William Branham was not a prophet is just not possible for their minds to deal with.

#The bridge was opened in March 1932 and if you roll back 22 years, that takes you about the time that William Branham was born.

The issues that proponents of this wild theory don't consider is the following:

#While 16 people did die in the construction of the Sydney Harbour bridge, only 2 of these people died from falling off the bridge.  William Branham clearly stated that he saw 16 people fall of the bridge.

#William Branham stated that he had the vision when he was 5 or 6 years old when he had the vision, so 22 years later would put the Sydney Bridge deaths much too early in time.

#William Branham clearly stated that he saw the bridge spanning the river but the Sydney Harbour bridge goes across a narrow part of the harbour (i.e. salt water and not part of a river).

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