The following is a recording I made at the Indiana State Convention in Indianapolis, Indiana on April 11, 1964. The banquet speaker was Judge Walter Kelly from Chicago. You may know Judge Kelly. At the time he was ill, but still went through and gave what we felt was a tremendous AA talk. If I remember correctly, and I don't know if it comes out in this talk or not, he was one of the people that Lefty Henderson first contacted or met in AA. This was many years ago. I believe Judge Kelly has, I'm not sure, again you'll find from the talk, and I may be completely incorrect, has well over 20 years sobriety in AA. Here is the banquet talk. As Paul said, I'm James T., or Jim T., or plain James Thomas. I also am an alcoholic. It is with a great deal of pleasure that I chairman this meeting, and it is additional pleasure because the speaker that we have engaged is an old acquaintance of mine. I, at the bottom of my drinking career, found myself on Skid Row in Chicago, and I was pretty much a regular resident of Madison Street for four years. I was arrested numerous times for drunkenness, and I think that I passed in front of the bench about a hundred times in four years. The man that generally looked down at me with an indulgent look and maybe a few kind words was the man that is our speaker tonight. He has done much to help me to arrive at the AA program, to get on the program, and to get in the program. It's with a great deal of pleasure I introduce Walt Kay from Chicago. Mr. Chairman, Reverend Elder, ladies and gentlemen, I am very, very happy and flattered to be here this evening. I'm especially delighted, of course, to be where it is so evident that Jim Thomas has done very well. I'm highly gratified at the turnout. It's a great pleasure to see the crowd, and I feel somewhat apologetic. I am not an orator. I'm not an entertainer. I'm a relative old-timer in AA, and all that I can tell you is how the thing has worked for me. To begin with, I think that every one of us has tremendous reason to be grateful. If some of you are not familiar with…