A.A. History - News Articles

The Gabriel Heatter Broadcast

WE THE PEOPLE The Gabriel Heatter Broadcast -April 25, 1939 The first national exposure for Alcoholics Anonymous came with April 25, 1939 “We The People”...

Alcoholics And God

Alcoholics And God Is there hope for habitual drunkards? A cure that borders on the miraculous-and it works! Liberty Magazine, September 1939, by Morris Markey...

John Barleycorns Victims Seek Strength In Unity

John Barleycorns Victims Seek Strength In Unity The Baltimore Sunday Sun, February 16, 1941 by Harrison Johnston _____________________________________________    The story of “Alcoholics Anonymous,” which now...

The Jack Alexander Article

The Jack Alexander Article The Saturday Evening Post March 1, 1941 Alcoholics Anonymous       THREE MEN sat around the bed of an alcoholic patient in the...

The Ex-Drunkards Lead The Drunkards

The Ex-Drunkards Lead The Drunkards The Baltimore News American, October 25, 1941 by Louis Azrael __________________________    “I’m a drunkard,” said the middle-aged, dignified gentleman who...

My Return From The Half-World Of Alcoholism

MY RETURN FROM THE HALF-WORLD OF ALCOHOLISM A letter to Alcoholics Anonymous saved the author’s life. January 1946, Readers Digest Copyright © AA Grapevine, Inc., Condensed...

The Drunkard’s Best Friend

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...

Alcoholics Can Be Cured – Despite A.A.

Nationally-distributed criticism of AA first appeared in a 1963 Harpers Magazine article In January, 1963, Harpers Magazine published an article by Dr. Arthur H. Cain...

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