For the AA History Buffs - James H about Bill W at the Oxford Group

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🗓️ 5 April 2021

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

This one is not an AA meeting, so if you need one pick a different episode. This is an interview conducted by an unknown AA member with James H a member of the Oxford Group (and AA) at the time Bill W was also a member. He was 90 years old at the time of the interview and is described as the last surviving member that worked with Bill W within the Oxford Group in the 1930s. This was a phone interview recorded in Feb of 1996 and it had one of the nastiest hums I have yet had to deal with in a recording, I was able to remove it and clean it up but the recording does sound slightly hollow and as a result and you may need to adjust the volume a bit as it progresses. Email: [email protected] Support Sober Cast: https://sobercast.com/donate We have added a page of meetings that have moved online https://sobercast.com/online-meetings Sober Cast has 1400+ episodes available, visit SoberCast.com to access all the episodes where you can easily find topics or specific speakers using tags or search.

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to SilverCast where we provide AA speak meetings and workshops and podcast
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0:22.3	We hope you enjoyed the podcast, have a great day.
0:27.6	February 27, 1996.
0:31.7	I'm talking with James.
0:34.3	I hope I said that correctly James.
0:39.3	And it's so good to meet you again over the telephone lines all the way from Maryland
0:46.9	and have a couple of pronouncing the name of the town that you live in.
0:54.1	Timonium, that's perfect, Timonium Maryland.
1:00.1	James is 90 years old and is probably the only person alive today who worked with Bill Wilson
1:10.1	when he was in the Oxford Group in New York back in mid-1930s.
1:19.1	James, I'd like to start by asking you to give me a little bit of background information
1:24.1	on where you were born and where you grew up in education and then how you make contact
1:32.1	with the Oxford Group and how they make contact with you.
1:35.1	Well, I don't know if I can give you this or not yet.
1:42.1	I was born in the town of the Sam Walkerville, OK?
1:48.1	That's right, it's February 19, 2006.
1:51.1	And I certainly had to have a smile.
1:54.1	I was into a farm with tears in the surface.
1:58.1	I lived on the farm until I was 12 years old.
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