On his way out to the lecture that evening Neville turned on the radio for a news bulletin and heard that Ahmanson, aged sixty-one and on vacation in Europe, had dropped dead, leaving three hundred million.
Date (happened)
17 June 1968
estimated · probable · preferred
Why
The existing d0 claim on this event (same source, no year) is a coarser rendering of the same 'as I came out tonight' remark; this adds the computed date rather than restating it.
Reasoning
Neville says he heard the radio bulletin the same evening as this lecture ('as I came out tonight'); the lecture is dated 1968-06-17, so the hearing of the news happened that same day. This refines the event's existing year-less relative claim from the same passage into a computed absolute date.
as I came out tonight
relative · probable
Told
17 June 1968
estimated · probable
Reasoning
Passage 549822 is Neville telling the audience on the platform that he had just heard on the radio that Ahmanson dropped dead; the lecture carrying this telling (nid 1948) is dated 1968-06-17 by its sole delivery claim, so the telling inherits that date at the same precision.
Sources
Source
- John 10: The Shepherd ¶32 (as I came out tonight, I turned on the radio to get a news bulletin and Ahmanson at sixty-one drops dead.)