W. P. Raines to E. M. McConnell Sending Stockholder Reports on Asbestos and Health (1969)

A one-page memo of May 27, 1969, headed "Asbestos/Health," from W. P. Raines of Johns-Manville's headquarters to E. M. McConnell of the Denver Sales District, copied to F. J. (Jack) Solon Jr. Following a visit to Denver, Raines sent copies of several J-M annual and quarterly reports to stockholders "in which the company policy of seeking to determine the facts about possible risks from excessive exposure to asbestos and to eliminate such exposures is spelled out by our President," for McConnell to keep with his copy of J-M's "basic position paper on asbestos/health." Raines thanked McConnell for following up on the asbestos and health question after a Colorado state official raised it with him.

In Johns-Manville's chronology

Johns-Manville's own chronology of what the company knew describes this document as follows:

W.P. Raines (J-M Public Relations) memorandum to E.M. McConnell (Denver Sales District), 5/27/69, encloses copies of several J-M Annual Reports and Quarterly Reports to Stockholders in which J-M's efforts to investigate the facts about possible risks from excessive exposure to asbestos and to eliminate such exposures are spelled out by J-M's President (Burnett). Raines suggests that McConnell may want to file these enclosures with J-M's basic position paper on asbestos health. (The enclosures are dated 1968 and 1969.)