Johns-Manville List of Educational Materials on Asbestos, with an Index of Exhibits Produced to Document Requests (1979)

Ten pages of Johns-Manville lists. The first page, "Educational Materials on Asbestos," names about 25 J-M and industry publications and programs, among them "What You Should Know About Asbestos and Health," "The Asbestos Report," "Before You Begin," "Environmental Facts," the occupational health guide, NIMA pamphlets, NICA's "Safety Reminders" and the "Working With Asbestos" program guide. The other nine pages index the "JM Exhibit" numbers given to documents J-M produced in answer to two sets of document requests in a lawsuit, from organization charts and board minutes to product sheets, labels, Saranac Laboratory and Industrial Hygiene Foundation papers, and health booklets.

What it shows

The index shows what J-M's lawyers gathered on the company's health history: board of directors minutes from April and June 1933, January 1968, January 1969 and April 1970; reports to the board on asbestos and health of January 1969 and April 1970; a February 1968 memo from F. J. Solon to Burnett on "Documenting Activities on Asbestos and Health"; the 1950 Saranac proposal and 1952 interim report on asbestos and lung cancer for the Quebec Asbestos Mining Association; J-M caution-label correspondence of 1963-1964 and labels from 1964 to 1978; Edmund Fenner's 1969 papers; and a "Statement of Concern" by Dr. Paul Kotin of March 15, 1977. Several items are marked "Furnished to Levy" or "Production not now required--subject to trial." The documents themselves are not in this file.