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    Primary documents from the Gloucestershire Archives proved most helpful in identifying the person leaving flowers at Karl Smith's grave. A photo from the archives included a name on the back that led them to an eyewitness, George Lee, who remembered boys trying to save Karl. Ronald Westborough, the man identified as leaving flowers for 70 years, was also an eyewitness to Karl's tragic death in 1947. He provided credible statements about Karl's character that matched details found in primary documents from the archives. The documentary showed how history uses primary sources and eyewitness accounts like a science to research the past and uncover the truth, changing the viewer's perspective on history as a discipline.

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    Primary documents from the Gloucestershire Archives proved most helpful in identifying the person leaving flowers at Karl Smith's grave. A photo from the archives included a name on the back that led them to an eyewitness, George Lee, who remembered boys trying to save Karl. Ronald Westborough, the man identified as leaving flowers for 70 years, was also an eyewitness to Karl's tragic death in 1947. He provided credible statements about Karl's character that matched details found in primary documents from the archives. The documentary showed how history uses primary sources and eyewitness accounts like a science to research the past and uncover the truth, changing the viewer's perspective on history as a discipline.

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    Primary documents from the Gloucestershire Archives proved most helpful in identifying the person leaving flowers at Karl Smith's grave. A photo from the archives included a name on the back that led them to an eyewitness, George Lee, who remembered boys trying to save Karl. Ronald Westborough, the man identified as leaving flowers for 70 years, was also an eyewitness to Karl's tragic death in 1947. He provided credible statements about Karl's character that matched details found in primary documents from the archives. The documentary showed how history uses primary sources and eyewitness accounts like a science to research the past and uncover the truth, changing the viewer's perspective on history as a discipline.

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    Primary documents from the Gloucestershire Archives proved most helpful in identifying the person leaving flowers at Karl Smith's grave. A photo from the archives included a name on the back that led them to an eyewitness, George Lee, who remembered boys trying to save Karl. Ronald Westborough, the man identified as leaving flowers for 70 years, was also an eyewitness to Karl's tragic death in 1947. He provided credible statements about Karl's character that matched details found in primary documents from the archives. The documentary showed how history uses primary sources and eyewitness accounts like a science to research the past and uncover the truth, changing the viewer's perspective on history as a discipline.

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    READHIS | ASSIGNMENT NO.

    Analyzing the Documentary The Stranger in the Brother’s Grave


    as an Historiographical Case Study

    Hana Llacer Elbeitam FODAR1B

    1. In Mrs. Anne Smith--Kear’s search for the “unknown friend” of her deceased brother
    (Karl), which source of historical information proved to be more helpful: eyewitnesses or
    primary documents? Explain why you think so.

    In my own opinion, primary documents proved to be more helpful. In Mrs. Anne


    Smith--Kear’s search for the “unknown friend” of her deceased brother, first step they did
    was investigation. The journalist took Mrs. Anne Smith-Kear to Gloucestershire
    Archives. They have gathered documents and photographs from that time period as
    primary sources. These have served as their first-hand evidences. It has helped them
    understand who are the possible witnesses that they may find. It helped them trace the
    possible evidences of her deceased brother. Primary sources are helpful because they are
    documents that chronicled something from the past.

    Eyewitnesses may not always be accurate, our memory is not reliable. Some
    eyewitnesses tend to lie to cover the truth. Some cannot recall what has happened and
    some may have died. The eyewitnesses were not quite useful because it has been past
    half-century since the tragedy happened. People who knew Karl may have died or may
    not remember anything from the past. With primary sources we can analyze what has
    really happened in the past. So these things are really illustrated through primary sources.
    They help us find why people did things and what happened.

    2. Which primary documents in the Gloucestershire Archives proved to be very crucial in


    the search for the identity of the person leaving flowers at Karl Smith’s grave.

    In the Gloucestershire Archives they had clues that have been very useful to them.
    They started with looking at the picture and wrote down every name they can find. They
    found an address at the back with a name. Eric White was the one who took the photo.
    Unfortunately he isn’t a witness, but this lead them to another lead, George Lee who
    remembered seeing the boys who tried to save Karl.

    3. Ronald Westborough is not just the man leaving flowers at Karl Smith’s grave for the past
    70 years. He was also an eyewitness to the last moments of Karl and his tragic death in
    1947. What is your personal assessment of Ronald Westborough’s statements as an
    eyewitness to the life, character, and death of Karl Smith?

    In my perspective, I can see Ronald Westborough’s statements were true to life.


    He is a good friend to Karl Smith. It is amazing that for 70 years he has been leaving
    flowers at the grave of his childhood friend. It is also surprising how it made a big impact
    to their lives knowing that Ronald Westborough became a police officer and the other one
    became a doctor because of this tragedy. A lot has been touched and influenced so many
    lives that ever after half-century has passed some still visit Karl’s grave.

    4. How did this documentary “The Stranger at My Brother’s Grave: change your views of
    history as a scientific discipline / or subject?

    I believe that history is considered as science because in history we study about


    the past, the events the took place. Is it to research or to investigate to come up with the
    evidence to bring up the truth just like in science, it is also dealing with facts and truths.
    History has primary and secondary resources while science believes in evidences.

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