Neville's secretary, Jack Butler, died suddenly and unexpectedly at age fifty, in or around August 1948, while Neville was on a lecture tour in California; he returned to New York for the funeral, which he gave as a Catholic service in Haverstraw, New York, where Jack was buried rather than cremated. Neville recounts that some six or seven months later he experienced a vision in which Jack appeared fully restored to youth, in his twenties, and did not know he had died.
Date (happened)
August 1948
stated · preferred
Reasoning
Neville explicitly opens the episode 'In 1948' and, within the same passage, identifies Jack's death as August of the preceding year relative to the vision six or seven months later, fixing August 1948 at month precision.
c. August 1948
estimated · probable
Why
Day of month not given; passage 536681 also fixes the burial as Catholic, in Haverstraw, New York, not cremation.
Reasoning
He settles on 1948 after hedging, and the arithmetic he gives himself (born 1898, died at fifty) confirms 1948; the companion passage in the same lecture supplies the month, August, spoken by Neville in the reported vision conversation. Neither detail is a year mentioned in passing about something else -- both describe this death directly, so this is the happening date, not an aside.
Told / reported
24 November 1967
estimated
Reasoning
Passage 552959 belongs to nid 2089, independently dated 1967-11-24 certain by byline and catalog.
24 November 1967
estimated
Reasoning
The lecture whose passage 536679 carries this telling is dated 1967-11-24 by two agreeing delivery claims; citing the transcript/chrome-sourced claim (d1) rather than the legacy catalog claim (d0) per lane guidance, though here both agree so there is no conflict to arbitrate.