Neville recalls the deaths of his parents and many friends

He says his father died at eighty-five and is buried in Barbados, his mother died at sixty-three, and dozens of his friends have died — yet none of them really died.

Date (happened)

before 19 December 1963

unresolved

before 19 December 1963 bound · probable

Source Christmas, The Redeeming Message

Why M7 dating pass (529; 525's readers, packet 036)

Reasoning Sole telling lecture nid 1807, probable delivery 1963-12-19.

Place

Barbados

Persons

Joseph "Joe" Goddard (Neville's father)

Wilhelmina Goddard

Told / reported

19 December 1963 estimated · probable

Source Christmas, The Redeeming Messagedelivery claim d1 on lecture nid 1807, chrome dateline '12/19/1963' cross-checked against 'Christmas is next Wednesday'

Reasoning The witness passage 545034 is embedded in lecture nid 1807's transcript at position 21; that lecture's delivery date is fixed at 1963-12-19 by claim d1 (probable, chrome dateline plus an independent internal weekday-arithmetic corroboration -- Christmas 1963 fell on a Wednesday, matching the lecture's own 'next Wednesday' remark). Since the passage is itself the telling, the told date equals the delivery date, capped at probable per the inheritance ceiling (the weaker d0 estimate, Dec 1963 at possible, is superseded by d1 and not used).

Sources

Source

Christmas, The Redeeming Message ¶21 (My father at eighty-five died, as the world would see it. He’s buried in Barbados. My mother died at sixty-three.)

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Christmas, The Redeeming Message