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The History of Alcoholics Anonymous
Historical writings, documents, letters, events, people, places and references through-out the history of A.A.
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History - News Articles
The
Gabriel Heatter Broadcast -"We The
People" -The first national exposure for Alcoholics
Anonymous came with the April 25, 1939 "We The
People" broadcast.
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Alcoholics
and God -Is there hope for habitual drunkards?
A cure that borders on the miraculous-and it works!
-Liberty Magazine, September, 1939.
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Cleveland
Plain Dealer -Late in 1939 Elrick B. Davis
of the Cleveland Plain Dealer ran a series of articles
on Alcoholics Anonymous; the first extensive publicity
the newly-formed AA Fellowship received. Here are those
series of articles dated from, Octoer 21, 1939 to November
4, 1939.
John
Barleycorns Victims Seek Strength In Unity
-by Harrison Johnston, The Baltimore Sunday Sun, February
16, 1941
The
Jack Alexander Article -"They were
members of Alcoholics Anonymous, a band of ex-problem
drinkers who make an avocation of helping other alcoholics
to beat the liquor habit." -Jack Alexander, The
Saturday Evening Post, March 1, 1941.
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The
Ex-Drunkards Lead The Drunkards -by Louis
Azrael, The Baltimore News American, October 25, 1941
My
Return from The Half-World of Alcoholism
-From Readers Digest, January 1946, this is a letter
to Alcoholics Anonymous that saved the author's life.
Condensed from the December 1945 issue of The A.A. Grapevine
-by Anonymous.
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The
Drunkard's Best Friend -Nine years ago
the Post reported on the then-obscure group known as
Alcoholics Anonymous. Since that time these self-rehabilitated
men-and women-have sobered up an astonishing number
of America's heaviest drinkers. This is how they do
it. -By Jack Alexander, The Saturday Evening Post, April
1, 1950.
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ALCOHOLICS
CAN BE CURED—DESPITE A.A. -From the
September 19, 1964 Saturday Evening Post. Nationally-distributed
criticism of AA first appeared in a 1963 Harpers Magazine
article. The adoption of the Responsibility Pledge at
the 1965 International Convention in Toronto was almost
certainly a direct result of the criticism in these
articles.
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