Man has AIDS in 1950s

[James White]

In <3irfd6$25a at newsbf02.news.aol.com> issan at aol.com (Issan) writes: 

>
>The case is documented -- most recently in the Coming Plagues.  The 
case
>occurs in 1959 in England, of a sailor, in Manchester as I recollect. 
>Blood tested after ELISa for HIV developed showed sailor in question 
died
>of AIDS developing from HIV-1.
>

Can someone verify if a similar story is documented. There was an 
article in the LA Times in the spring of 1988 about a teenage boy who 
died of a mysterious disease in 1969. His doctor was so perplexed, he 
saved tissue and blood samples. When HIV arose, the blood was tested 
positive for HIV. I didn't save the article, nor did I hear anything 
else about it.

Was this confirmed?

Thanks,
JW