Bill O'Brien

Bill O'Brien got sober in 1957 and stayed sober from that time until he passed away -- except for "two bad days" in 1959. Bill was there at Joe Meiner's 20th anniversary in New York, when AA was only 25 years old and Bill Wilson led the meeting.

Here are two short clips of Bill's most popular stories:

Here is the entire talk given by Bill at the Round Up at Lake Havasu City, Arizona in 1999.

A resident of Chula Vista, Bill was one of the most generous men in AA, taking meetings into Donovan State Prison and working with "hopeless" cases at South Bay Pioneers.

   

Group photo was taken in 2002 at a dinner celebrating Bill O'Brien's 85th birthday.