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Interesting read of the pdf.
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Is there a mistake in the text of the date in the
pdf (pages 3 and 4) ?
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[page 3 of the pdf]:
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Your investigations led to some questions
about A.A.'s founding date. Could you
describe what you discovered and people's reaction to this discovery? Good historians have to follow the evidence even if we don't like where that ?
[page 4 of the pdf]:
takes us, and even if others have a lot of emotion about what we are investigating. For example, I was advised by an editor reviewing my manuscript on early A.A. history to look into the events surrounding the Atlantic City AMA Convention in Atlantic City that immediately preceded Dr. Bob's last drink. The dates from the detailed AMA records didn't line up and Dr. Bob was not indicated as signing in to any one seminar or the Convention as a whole. There was a second time misalignment with respect to Sue Smith¡¯s very specific accounting of an argument with her father on the date of his return. He refused to give permission for her to attend a dance at a named school. Wally P., another A.A. historian, was going to Akron he offered to check the Akron Beacon Journal for the date of the dance at that school. It occurred exactly one week later. So the date was actually June 17, 1939 [bolding mine]. ?
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? Is the date in bold supposed to have been listed as
1935?
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Rachael M
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