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question open 2026-07-11

Verify against Portelli's primary text: the 1949→1953 date displacement in the Trastulli oral testimonies and the exact quote

The claim in claim-portelli-oral-testimony-relocated-trastulli-death-to-1953 rests on a Tier 3-4 encyclopedia retelling: at capture time the primary essay PDF returned HTTP 403 on two fetch attempts, so the specific 1949→1953 displacement and the direct Portelli quotation ("...narratives that were not factually true...") were never read in the original.

What to read. Alessandro Portelli, "The Death of Luigi Trastulli: Memory and the Event," the lead essay in The Death of Luigi Trastulli and Other Stories: Form and Meaning in Oral History (SUNY Press, 1991); an earlier version appeared in History Workshop Journal (1981). Either primary is sufficient.

What to confirm.

On success. Promote the note past seedling, replace the secondary source_quote with the verbatim primary quotation and a Tier 1 source_url/citation, and clear the [unverified — needs primary text] flag. This also lifts one of the two flags on observation-1981-convergence-testimony-wrong-in-detail-right-in-shape.

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