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Well, thank you all and welcome everyone.

And thank you for the opportunity to make this history presentation.

It's going to be a one-hour timeline history of AA and how AA started in Houston, Fort Worth, and Dallas.

In the interest of time, the presentation is going to end at the year 1971, and that's when co-founder Bill W. passed away.

Our 12th step carrying the message is the basic service of the AA Fellowship.

It is our principal aim and main reason for our existence.

Therefore, AA is more than a set of principles.

It's a society of alcoholics in action.

We must carry the message else we ourselves can wither

and those who haven't been given the truth may die.

Carrying the message is the historical service that gave birth to the AA fellowship in AA's first group in Akron, Ohio.

A.A.'s co-founders, Bill W. and Dr. Bob, first met in Akron in early May,

1935. Dr. Bob later went on a four-day binge

at a medical convention, and Bill W. helped him through three days of sobering up to get ready

for his scheduled surgery. Dr. Bob had his last drink on the day of the surgery, which is celebrated

as June 10, 1935, and AA marks this date as the beginning of the

AA Fellowship.

In late June, Dr. Bob and Bill W. visited Bill D. at the City Hospital of Ackham. Bill D., who would become A.A. number

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