Neville recounts reading in the New York Times that Billy Graham hoped to live long enough to meet the second coming of Jesus Christ and shake his hand, and rereading it in disbelief.
Date (happened)
before 1969
bound · possible
Reasoning
Qualifying passage ids [541332] belong to telling lecture nids [1502]. Each listed lecture contributes the selected safe envelope year 1969 (MAX of its non-refuted delivery years); 1969 is the MIN across telling lectures.
before 17 November 1969
bound
Why
Tightens the phase4 L6a envelope from before 1969 to before 1969-11-17.
Reasoning
L6a envelope tightened to the telling day of nid 1502 (certain delivery 1969-11-17); same premise, finer precision. The phase4 L6a bound on this event is `before 1969`, an envelope over delivery YEARS computed without reading text. Its premise is that the fact is true by the time it is told; on that same premise the DAY of the telling is a strictly better upper bound. Nothing is re-decided — the bound is stated to the precision the evidence always supported. The delivery claim for 1969-11-17 on nid 1502 is held at `certain` by the corpus, which is what carries this claim. #2274; the L6a row stands beside this one.
Sources
Source
- Thy Words Were Found ¶49 (When I read that in the New York Times, well, I could hardly believe that I’m seeing correctly. I reread it and reread it…yes, unless they misquoted him, which they could…)