Neville lifted his dancing partner's sixty-six-year-old father off the bed to help him to the bathroom; the man said he was tired and wished only to be free, and when Neville told him to close his eyes and imagined him as free as the wind, he died in Neville's arms.
Date (happened)
between 1929 and 1937
unresolved
between 1929 and 1937
estimated · possible · preferred
Reasoning
Amerique's father, Marcus Morton Johnson, is alive in the 1927 Atlanta feature (scan 552) and in the Depression years 1929-1932 (16126, his friendship with the banker Jackson E. Reynolds); Neville calls him 'my dancing partner's father', which fits the years Amerique was his partner, to about 1937. Told on 17 March 1969.
Told / reported
17 March 1969
estimated · probable
Reasoning
The witness passage 546000 is embedded in lecture nid 1830's transcript at position 42; that lecture's delivery date is fixed at 1969-03-17 by claim d1 (probable, chrome dateline, consistent with the weaker post-1966 bound in d0 built from the lecture's reference to the already-published Resurrection). Since the passage is itself the telling, the told date equals the delivery date, capped at probable per the inheritance ceiling.
Sources
Source
- Simon Lifts the Cross ¶42 (I went into his bedroom at the hotel and he said, “Nev, help me to the bathroom.” So I raised him off the bed and I held my arms around him this way. He said, “Oh, I’m so tired!” I said, “Pop, what would you like?” He said, “Just to be free.”)