May I add to this, wearing my (reasonably experienced) trial lawyer hat (or wig) for a moment, that perfectly honest witnesses can have great difficulty in accurately recalling even very recent events, dates, times, places and so forth, let alone events which occurred a considerable time ago. This is one reason why photographs and contemporaneous documents can be of value in getting as close as possible to a historical record. Why is there this persistent concern here and elsewhere to talk up oddball claimants and belittle the Wrights, even though they did take the trouble to maintain records of what they did?
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