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=About the Louisville Municipal Bridge= | =About the Louisville Municipal Bridge= | ||
Originally called the '''Louisville Municipal Bridge''', the '''George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge''' is a four-lane cantilever bridge crossing the Ohio River between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana, carrying US 31. Construction began | Originally called the '''Louisville Municipal Bridge''', the '''George Rogers Clark Memorial Bridge''' is a four-lane cantilever bridge crossing the Ohio River between Louisville, Kentucky and Jeffersonville, Indiana, carrying US 31. The bridge was designed by Ralph Modjeski and Frank Masters, consulting engineers. The contract for construction of the substructure was signed June 1, 1928 with the Vang Construction Company of Pittsburgh, the low bidder, and construction began soon thereafter. The contract for the construction of the superstructure was signed July 5, 1928 with the American Bridge Company of New York, the low bidders for this portion of the work. The contract specified a penalty if the this portion of the work was not completed by December 1, 1929. | ||
The American Bridge Company developed a new method of erecting the cantilever structure which was known as the "guy derrick system of erection." This system was so successful it allowed completion of the bridge one month in advance of the deadline. The bridge was dedicated by President Herbert Hoover at its opening on October 31, 1929. | |||
It was during this time that William Branham was working as a cowhand in Arizona. He returned to Jeffersonville after he received news that his brother Edward had passed away on June 20, 1929. When he returned to Jeffersonville, the new bridge would have been opened or very close to completion. In 1949, the bridge was renamed in honor of George Rogers Clark. The bridge was rehabilitated in 1958, and is still in use today. | |||
=Problems with the Prophecy= | =Problems with the Prophecy= | ||
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==Problem 1: No evidence of 16 fatalities== | ==Problem 1: No evidence of 16 fatalities== | ||
There are no historic documents or evidence supporting the statement that 16 men died during the construction of the Louisville Municipal Bridge. '''In a telephone conversation with George Smith, William Branham's son-in-law, he admitted that this vision was not fulfilled.''' | |||
Additionally, it is clear that William Branham stated that the 16 men died by drowning: | Additionally, it is clear that William Branham stated that the 16 men died by drowning: | ||
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In William Branham's vision, 16 people died when they fell off the bridge. With the Big Four Bridge, 37 people died in the construction of the bridge. All of these fatalities occurred before William Branham was born. | In William Branham's vision, 16 people died when they fell off the bridge. With the Big Four Bridge, 37 people died in the construction of the bridge. All of these fatalities occurred before William Branham was born. | ||
Was this the reason that William Branham did not tell the story in his home town, Jeffersonville, until 1960? Did he simply make up the story knowing that no one would be able to check the facts? People would have remembered a lot of people being killed in the construction of a bridge many years in the past but would have been unable to differentiate between the Big Four bridge and the Municipal Bridge. | |||
===Deception by message followers=== | ===Deception by message followers=== | ||
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::::'''''Workmen Meet Their Death by a Falling Bridge Caisson.''' | ::::'''''Workmen Meet Their Death by a Falling Bridge Caisson.''' | ||
:''Sixteen lives have been lost by the giving way of a caisson at the new bridge now building across the Ohio | :''Sixteen lives have been lost by the giving way of a caisson at the new bridge now building across the Ohio River at Louisville, KY. Most of the victims were colored.'' | ||
:''The caisson, known as No. 1, was about one hundred yards from the Kentucky shore. As the workmen of the pumping station were looking for the men in the caisson to put off in their boards, leaving work for the night, they suddenly saw the low, dark structure disappear in the dashing white waves, and heard, before they could realize what had happened, the roar of the furious maelstrom. A runner was despatched to the life-saving station and three skiffs were manned and pulled to the scene of the wreck. | :''The caisson, known as No. 1, was about one hundred yards from the Kentucky shore. As the workmen of the pumping station were looking for the men in the caisson to put off in their boards, leaving work for the night, they suddenly saw the low, dark structure disappear in the dashing white waves, and heard, before they could realize what had happened, the roar of the furious maelstrom. A runner was despatched to the life-saving station and three skiffs were manned and pulled to the scene of the wreck. | ||