Barbara Diemer to D. H. Markusson on Distribution of Dr. Wright's Asbestos and Health in 1969 (1981)

A one-page Johns-Manville memo of January 7, 1981, from Barbara Diemer, a legal assistant, to D. H. Markusson, a J-M attorney, on the booklet "Asbestos and Health in 1969" by Dr. George W. Wright, J-M's medical consultant. Diemer reported that Jim Reis told her the booklet "was generally distributed by AFD salesmen but that no records exist as to the customers who received it," and that it was part of the Asbestos Information Association's 1970 information package, "broadly distributed," and used afterward "in all health-related meetings."

What it shows

The memo shows that by 1981 J-M could not say which customers had received its main health booklet of the late 1960s; there were no distribution records. The booklet itself, which Diemer attached, is not in this copy. AFD was probably J-M's Asbestos Fiber Division, which sold raw fiber. For J-M's standard interrogatory answers on the dates of its health booklets, see Diemer's memo of February 1980.