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By: Thom R. <thomr021092@...>

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A short "interview" with William White concerning the study of AA History. I do not know exactly when this was done (maybe someone in the group knows more) but I did find it to be interesting and wanted to share.


 

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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
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[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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Subject: [AAHistoryLovers] File /Articles/Confession_of_an_AA_History_Buff.pdf uploaded #file-notice

The following items have been added to the Files area of the [email protected] group.

By: Thom R. <thomr021092@...>

Description:
A short "interview" with William White concerning the study of AA History. I do not know exactly when this was done (maybe someone in the group knows more) but I did find it to be interesting and wanted to share.


 

2006. Here's a link with the citation.
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https://www.chestnut.org/resources/bc978587-ce45-4feb-88ff-aedb528a2bc5/2006-Confessions-of-an-AA-History-Buff.pdf


 

Yes looks like the wrong date, probably a typo. I'll see what I can do about fixing that and getting a fixed version uploaded as soon as I can.?
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Thom


 

A big greeting from Mexico, thanks for your articles, as always, very interesting.



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