The night before the lecture Neville heard Billy Graham for the first time — a crusade programme with a thousand-member choir and an appeal for money — and concluded Graham had no concept of Jesus or the second coming.
Date (happened)
24 October 1968
unresolved
24 October 1968
relative · preferred
Reasoning
The authoritative carrier date is 1968-10-25; the immediately preceding night is 1968-10-24. The old before-1968 bound inherited from the rejected June carrier is stale.
25 October 1968
stated
Source
"Last night", told in Imagination Fulfills Itself (nid 1392)
before 1968
bound · doubtful
Reasoning
Direct temporal wording places event before telling.
25 October 1968
estimated · refuted
Source
passage 538958 (lecture nid 1392), 'Last night, for instance, I heard Billy Graham for the first time'
Why
pm-actor-525: refuted by the M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 029): Relies on the stale assumption that the carrier (retired node 1392) delivered 1968-10-26 (Saturday, off-season); the consolidated lecture's better-attested delivery is 1968-10-25 (Friday, on-season), which yields 24 October for 'last night', matching event 7184's same-night episode.
Reasoning
'Last night' relative to the certain, independently corroborated 1968-10-26 delivery date (catalog #484 plus an independent chrome byline dateline) places the broadcast the evening before, 1968-10-25.
2 June 1968
stated · refuted
Why
pm-actor-529: refuted by M7 (529) before merging into 16772 (M7-K0049): 1968-06-02 is the rejected pre-correction catalogue date of lecture 1363; the broadcast is the 25 October 1968 night 16772 and 7290 share (chain M7-K0049)
Told / reported
26 October 1968
stated · probable
Source
Imagination Fulfills Itself (nid 1392), telling 1392-0, told 1968-10-26
26 October 1968
estimated
Source
delivery claim d2 on lecture nid 1392, chrome byline '10/26/68', certain, preferred, independently corroborating catalog #484
Reasoning
He recounts hearing Graham in this lecture, whose delivery date is certain and independently corroborated by two sources; the told claim inherits that ceiling.
3 June 1968
stated · doubtful
Sources
Source
- Imagining Creates ¶6 (Last night, for instance, I heard Billy Graham for the first time. Here were thousands of people in the audience listening to a thousand-member choir sing the song, “Oh, how I love Jesus.” Now, I don’t want to be critical, but when I heard Billy Graham s…)
- Imagining Creates ¶6 (Last night, for instance, I have never heard Billy Graham. I have read what he has said in little magazines and I have read it in newspapers. And so I thought, well now, he’s speaking on the second coming of Christ, I’ll turn him on.)