Nosferati - that is not a bad idea. The problem as I see it is whether anybody from my era (I was 26 in 1975, had been JW for about 12 years or so) - has actually kept good enough notes or has a perfect memory of all the events.
Of course, in my view 1975 was a very diverse experience. Many of the older sisters (single, or with NBMates) were the most enthusiastic for it. I guess it was their way of living the fantasy that all their troubles would soon be over. The other group who hit on this the hardest was a certain class of self-important elder types (servants before the elders came about). They were the types always angling themselves into "important" assembly talks, and loved to hammer on 1975 as a test of faith. Funny that one of the biggest jerks I knew who fell into this category also just dearly loved to go on about that stupid "heart and brain" idea - where the heart literally was sort of a second brain and could lead you into immorality. He was ironically later DFd for immorality.
Most single guys in the U.S. of my age at the time it was being taught were probably more worried about the draft board than the great tribulation - and probably believed in the possibility of the draft board putting them in prison as being far more real than some new iteration of the old "Armageddon is near" line. What actually happened for us was the end of the selective service system in the early to mid seventies (which the good old WTS probably hated, because it was keeping a lot of us in Bethel or as pioneers).
Personally, I was never a believer in it, and so probably tended to associate with others who took it with a grain of salt.
I do remember that many elders, even many circuit overseers, were moderates on this idea. I heard many precaution the fanatics (particularly after one of the most rabid assembly talks on the subject) - that we need to be careful in picking a date. That was still permissible speech because "we know not the day nor the hour". Some would even say that the 6000 year + 1000 year chronology might even be suspect. I do know that in the final year - before October 75 - you hardly heard a word on the subject. The real frenzy was several years before. It was almost as if everyone had a real dread that this was not going to come true.
Many also behaved sort of like the silent victims of a con-man swindle after it was all over. They were actually ashamed and afraid to admit that they took it seriously, so became second victims of the Society telling them it never happened or that it was all in their own minds. Of course, post 1975 many just voted with their feet, and a 3 to 4 year period of losses rather than growth resulted.
