Remember, within a few years of 1975 most JWs professed not to remember that the WT said anything of consequence about that date. Ding:
and read about the diehards in the sorry story 1975 to 2075, who considered
1) 1975 a faith strengthening experience, a test of their zeal and endurance, and a time of sifting survived,
2) an affirmation that wt was on the right track, because Armageddon, paradise were now surely so much closer as they were in 69 when it all began.