You sometimes want to find the actual source of a citation. Just to make sure.
Like this one, found in the April, 2011 edition of the Watchtower, about the trial of Jesus by the Romans, being called
The darkest crime known to the history of jurisprudence
If you were to find the source of this citation, you would normally just type it in Google between double-quotes, but you'd find yourself with dozens of results just quoting the citation, like the article mentionned above :
Removing Facebook from the search reduces exponentially the number of results to 3:
We have a unusual result here, in the form of archive site for newspapers. However, clicking on that link takes you to a paywall for a site dedicated to newspaper archives:
But going back to the Google results, we obtain some precious information: the name of the newspaper which seems to contain the original declaration, a date and the likely author:
Maybe the Galva Newspapers are kept somewhere in a public archive? They would not be indexed by Google, explaining why the citation would not appear in the results?
It seems so (it's actually another site):
Going there, we can even search by year!
Let's try to find the April 26th, 1945 edition, and let's go to page 2:
However, our citation is nowhere to be found on this page (and there's a lot to read):
Maybe typing the quotation in the site searchbar will help us?
It does indeed, and it seems it's hidden in page 1!
And here it is, our hidden gem from a 80-year-old newspaper. It was declared few days before by a local attorney before the Rotary Club:
Digging a bit further, we can find information on the author's life, Martin E. O'Connor, who died 20 years later:
Interesting that he was buried in the cemetery of the Mount of Olives.
The Mount of Olives, where Jesus had his final meeting with the apostles.
So, we can say Ww’ve come full circle.
