User:Kfor/WIP/Bill Bailey

Bill Bailey (1909 - February 22, 1995) was born in Jersey City, New Jersey, and grew up in poverty in Hoboken, New Jersey. He was a veteran of the Spanish Civil War, fighting in the Abraham Lincoln Brigade.

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(this is salvaged from http://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?title=Talk:Bill_Bailey_%28Spanish_Civil_War_veteran%29&oldid=147563793 , which I suspect will vanish sometime soon.)

Only a short while back I thought about trying to write a bio page about Bill Bailey, which I started here: User:Kfor/WIP/Bill_Bailey

I didn't get very far; sources are hard to find. His autobiography, The Kid from Hoboken, is useful. I didn't read all of it though. There's a short bio available on Spartacus Educational's site, but it is very short indeed. I have links to more sources at around somewhere, I'll post them later. -87.198.172.26 13:51, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Just a thought: there appears to be no mention of him in either the Spanish or Catalan wikipedia. -87.198.172.26 15:06, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Very difficult to find stuff online! There was a documentary filmed in 1983 called "The Good Fight", about US volunteers in the Spanish Civil War, and Bailey features. Anyone living in New York? If so, you have access to production materials for that documentary. Also, at the same location, The Marjorie Polon papers is a collection of correspondence between Polon and some volunteers, including Bailey, mostly during 1938. jstor.org seem to have some stuff online, but the interface is (intentionally?) painful. -Kfor 23:25, 27 July 2007 (UTC)

Here's 2 book previews I got via google scholar: Madrid 1937: Letters of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade from the Spanish Civil War, and Comrades: Tales of a Brigadista in the Spanish Civil War. Haven't got time to go through them right now, but will tomorrow. -Kfor 00:03, 28 July 2007 (UTC)