Neville describes literally experiencing, about thirty years earlier, what scripture describes as being a pillar of cloud by day: walking down 55th Street, he suddenly began seeing everyone he passed enveloped in an enormous cloud so vast it passed through the walls of buildings on either side, and at night the same figures appeared wreathed in fire instead. He says the ability never fully left him and that he can still see it whenever he chooses to look.
Date (happened)
c. 1935
estimated · possible · preferred
Reasoning
The lecture is dated 1965-05-07 (see told claim). The vision is placed 'about thirty years ago' relative to this lecture, giving circa 1935. Confidence is possible/circa because 'about thirty' is a round approximation and the told date itself carries only probable confidence.
Told / reported
7 May 1965
estimated · probable
Why
This is the same lecture (nid 1222) whose delivery-date conflict was already flagged when investigating hist_event 5975's merge proposal earlier in this run; resolved here using its own internal scheduling text.
Reasoning
This lecture's own closing lines announce 'here every Tuesday, every Friday until the end of June' and a return 'late October or early November' -- a schedule that only makes sense as a spring lecture looking ahead to a summer recess, not as a lecture already delivered in late November. This internal scheduling evidence, already flagged as unresolved by a prior lane's processing notes, corroborates the chrome-sourced 1965-05-07 date over the certain catalog claim of 1965-11-22. Written at probable (matching the chrome claim's own confidence) rather than certain since no lane has yet formally adjudicated the conflict.