Bill Donovan's racial hatred is broken by a Jewish soldier and a Black worker saving him

A San Francisco businessman, Bill Donovan, told Neville in person how his hatred of Jews and Negroes was destroyed when a Jewish private saved his company in New Guinea and a Negro worker saved his life from a factory fire.
Date (happened)
between September 1963 and November 1963
unresolved
  1. between September 1963 and November 1963 stated · preferred
    Source Purified by the Death of Your Delusions ¶3"this past year… this past fall", told in Purified by the Death of Your Delusions (nid 1832)
  2. before December 1963 bound · probable
    Source Purified by the Death of Your Delusions ¶3passage 546073 (lecture nid 1832), 'a story told to me this past year in the city of San Francisco, this past fall'
    Why The existing stated/certain between-claim on this event actually dates the Donovan-to-Neville telling, not the incidents; left in place per append-only.
    Reasoning The New Guinea combat episode and the later factory-fire episode -- the actual incidents this event describes -- must have happened before Donovan told them to Neville in person, which the passage places in fall of the year before the January 1964 lecture, i.e. no later than about November-December 1963; no specific year for either incident is stated anywhere in the packet.
Told
  1. 28 January 1964 stated
    Source Purified by the Death of Your DelusionsPurified by the Death of Your Delusions (nid 1832), telling 1832-0, told 1964-01-28
Sources

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  • Purified by the Death of Your Delusions ¶3 (So let me share with you a story told to me this past year in the city of San Francisco, this past fall. He’s one perfectly marvelous chap. He was born in Boston, Massachusetts, the only child of parents who came here from Ireland, raised in a very rugge…)