THE VANISHING COFFIN / CHRONOLOGY

A journey through
the record.

Chronology and story order are different. Conflicting accounts stay visible until evidence resolves them.

26 July 1952

Inherited research; not a new death-certificate examination

Death and preservation

Death date and Pedro Ara’s preservation work are carried forward from the existing full case research.

September 1955

Disputed retrospective testimony

Contested custody branch

See replacement Dansey note. Keep this branch separate from November accounts.

23 November 1955

Participant diary selection; limited scope

Coffin preparation

Ara describes coffining and intended welding the following day; later entries record delay. This selection does not establish departure.

23 November 1955

Attributed account, not reconciled

Removal in secondary account

Regolo assigns removal to the night of November 23.

April–May 1957

Secondary account; cemetery record still needed

Voyage and burial

Regolo distinguishes an April voyage from burial in Milan on May 13 under María Maggi de Magistris.

3 September 1971

Secondary account; underlying certificate not examined here

Madrid handover

Regolo dates the formal delivery to Perón to September 3.

17 November 1974

Secondary account

Argentina return

Regolo records repatriation to Argentina.

1976

No exact burial day asserted

Family vault

Regolo places the transfer to Recoleta after the coup.

10 / 25 September 1979

Production dates verified; taxi is creative staging

Broadway

Previews and opening are separate dates; the taxi frame has no independently established day.