This is not a fake doc !!

nrkist2424,

in your response to Berks2020's post about the EXISTENCE OF MULTIPLE VERNAS with the SAME NAME, you question the information he provides because he failed to cite any sources. so far, so good: you seem to be aware that it is necessary to cite evidence in order to make credible the information one shares, or the claims one makes, on a discussion board. However, if this assumption is correct, it is baffling why you would go on to assert--without providing any sources of your own--that Berks2020 "has a stake in the film". The fact that Berks2020's post was his first on IMDB is not sufficient evidence for your claim. Actually, after having taken a closer look at YOUR posts, I see absolutely no evidence for your claim to have "discredit[ed] this film".

As Berks2020 has pointed out, it takes just 5 seconds to turn up numerous sources that confirm his information about the VERNA FUNERAL HOME, etc (links below). By contrast, you say you've found evidence that Verna was a CITY COUNCIL MEMBER". However, I could not easily verify your claim, so it's a PITY that you didn't provide any sources, despite demanding them from Berks2020.

I don't see any mention online that "Severino Verna" was ever himself a member of the City Council; it seems you are confusing him with his wife Anna, a long-serving city council member.

In 2009, the Philadelphia Inquirer reported the death of one "SEVERINO D. VERNA JR, 79, husband of City Council President Anna C. Verna", and lists his occupation and address. "In the 1950s, MR. VERNA FOUNDED THE VERNA FUNERAL HOME AT 1244 S. BROAD ST., the South Philadelphia rowhouse where he and his wife lived for years."

(hxxp://articles.philly.com/2009-06-16/news/25285015_1_columbus-day-parade-parade-marshal-convertibles)

1) So the 'Severino Verna' that you thought was a CITY COUNCILMAN, was actually FUNERAL HOME FOUNDER/OWNER/DIRECTOR(?). If the former (councilman) doesn't fit your image of the tiler, isn't the latter (funeral home owner) a little bit closer?

2) One finds multiple variations on Verna's full name in different sources. In the "Philadelphia Public Record", the husband of "Council President Anna Cibotti Verna" goes by the name "CAVALIER SEVERINO VERNA". So compare that to the Philadelphia Inquirer, which reported Anna's husband's name as "SEVERINO D. VERNA JR". Either this individual was both his own father and his own son at the same time, or there were are least two "Severino Vernas", and some confusion among newspaper reports as to which was which.

(hxxp://www.phillyrecord.com/2011/01/our-opinion-thank-you-anna-cibotti-verna/)

3) Notice that the Inquirer says that "SEVERINO D. VERNA JR" lived with his wife, Anna, at "1244 S. BROAD STREET" (Philadelphia, PA.). In the film, there is a 'Sevy Verna" living at '2624 S. 7TH STREET'. Either there is one individual named "Severino Verna" with resided at multiple addresses, or there are multiple "Severino Verna"s!

Unless you show me otherwise, it looks like the research you've done is not only wrong, but it also in no way discredits the film, as you claim to have done. The theories presented in the film regaring the identity of the Toynbee tiler are entirely consistent with the idea that there exist multiple individuals with the name "Sevy Verna".

Other sources: (hxxp://www.nbcphiladelphia.com/news/politics/City-Council-President-Verna-Announces-Retirement-114509589.html,hxxp://www.southwestphillyreview.com/view_article.php?id=8819, hxxp://www.philly.com/philly/blogs/heardinthehall/Severino_Verna_husband_of_Council_president_dies.html)