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Joseph Anthony Dallet Jr. (February 18, 1907 – October 13, 1937) was an American industrial worker, labor and communist organizer. From a wealthy family, Dallet was involved in the American labor movement early on, taking industrial jobs such as docker or steel mill worker.
Joseph Anthony Dallet Jr. (18 de fevereiro de 1907 - 13 de outubro de 1937) foi um comunista norte-americano que morreu na Guerra Civil Espanhola.
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Katherine Vissering "Kitty" Puening was born in Recklinghausen, Westphalia, Prussia, Germany, on August 8, 1910, the only child of Franz Puening and Käthe Vissering. Although she claimed that her father was a prince and that her mother was related to Queen Victoria, Kitty would say that her father was the prince of a small state called Westphalia i...
At a New Year's Eve party later that year, Puening met Joseph Dallet Jr. After the 1927 executions of Sacco and Vanzetti, he joined the Communist Party of America in 1929. He had been involved in the International Unemployment Day protest in Chicago on March 6, 1930, that was brutally repressed by the authorities, and worked as a union organizer wi...
Soon after, Harrison left for Pasadena, California, for his residency at the California Institute of Technology (Caltech), while Kitty remained in Philadelphia to complete her bachelor's degree in botany at the University of Pennsylvania, and was then offered a postgraduate research fellowship at the University of California, Los Angeles. At Caltec...
Their child, a son they named Peter, was born in Pasadena, on May 12, 1941, during Oppenheimer's regular session at Caltech. When they returned to Berkeley, he bought a new house at One Eagle Hill with a view over the Golden Gate. Kitty worked at the University of California as a laboratory assistant. They left Peter with the Chevaliers and a Germa...
With the end of the war in August 1945, Oppenheimer had become a celebrity, and Kitty had become an alcoholic. Kitty was said to get drunk to the point of falling down and passing out, however, Serber claimed that this was due to the medication that she was taking for her painful pancreatitis. She suffered a series of bone breaks from drunken falls...
Portrayals of Kitty in popular cultureinclude: 1. Jana Shelden in the miniseries Oppenheimer(1980). 2. Bonnie Bedelia in the film Fat Man and Little Boy (1989). 3. Neve Campbell in the series Manhattan(2015). 4. Emily Blunt in the film Oppenheimer (2023), who received a nomination for the Academy Award for Best Supporting Actress among other accola...
31 de dez. de 2014 · Letters written by an American communist volunteer in the Spanish Civil War to his wife before his death in combat DP269.
Dallet was an American citizen, but as first commissar of the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, he is a significant figure in the narrative of Canada’s involvement in Spain. Letters from Spain invites a deeper character study of one of the many international volunteers: in this case, a man whose behavior was a source of great controversy.
Joseph Anthony Dallet Jr. (February 18, 1907 – October 13, 1937) was an American industrial worker, labor and communist organizer. From a wealthy family, Dallet was involved in the American labor movement early on, taking industrial jobs such as docker or steel mill worker.
Joe Dallet was a labor organizer, Communist Party activist, and volunteer in the Spanish Civil War. He was killed in action in 1937 while leading his unit, the Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion, on the Aragon Front.
