103:. The extent of Baldock's activities with the rebels are unknown. He later claimed to have remained in this group for five months as an instructor and combatant until becoming ill with bacillary dysentery. Baldock also claimed he and his friend were then moved covertly out of the country through an underground network consisting primarily of small Catholic churches. In Miami, hospitalized, he met with a United Press representative to whom he gave the two notebooks of his observations and interviews, consenting for them to be used as needed by UP. These notebooks were subsequently lost. However an interview he gave on returning to America in May 1958 indicated that he had been in Cuba for only two months of which an unknown portion had been spent in the rebel camp; he also made no comments about having been an instructor or combatant while with the rebels and described his time in Cuba as a "vacation".
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organizations. For over twenty years he has co-produced the KPFA events with Ken
Preston.The events are routinely recorded for subsequent radio broadcast and webcast, with dissemination in CD and DVD format. For most events he produced original posters, at first often silkscreened, later produced digitally; he also designed posters for UC Berkeley Graduate Journalism Dept; and for UCB International Studies Department. A collection of his posters is in the Oakland Museum of California. His posters are featured on his website, along with other artworks. Some posters are displayed on the KPFA website.
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697:‘’Festival Celebration Party Program,’’ 7th Annual San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival Nov 2-3, 1996, San Francisco Bay Area Book Council Festival Celebration Party and Presentation of "The Decca" in honor of Jessica Mitford to Bob Baldock, Saturday, November 2, 1996. "The Decca" award was designed and constructed by Ben Weber.
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in north
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as a copyboy; there he had privileged access to ticker-tape coverage of the Cuban insurrectionary movement as well as to maps and press passes. With a college friend who knew
Spanish he made his way to Havana in the spring of 1958. From Havana the two made their way to the Sierra Maestra, where they
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During those years he collaborated with letterpress printer Wesley Tanner designing and printing the broadsides given out at Moe's Books. In 1974 he began an extensive series of portraits in various media of
African-American subjects. A selection of these were presented at a one-man show at The Art
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Baldock Sr., his mother, Bertha Elizabeth Lyon Baldock, both from the midwestern United States and of northern European extraction. He had one brother, Earl Lyon Baldock, (1940-2002). He fathered four children, two with his first wife, Maria Champion: Paul Michel Baldock
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Baldock started working for KPFA Radio, 94.1 FM, in
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In 1996 he received recognition for outstanding service to the reading community by being awarded "The Decca," "an award in honor of
Jessica Mitford" presented by the San Francisco Bay Area Book Council on the occasion of the 7th Annual San Francisco Book Festival, November 2, 1996.
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Recipient of The Decca award for service to the reading community: "Festival
Celebration Party Program," 7th Annual San Francisco Bay Area Book Festival Nov 2-3, 1996, San Francisco Bay Area Book Council Festival Celebration Party and Presentation of “The Decca” in honor of
74:, near Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, Baldock studied for two years at Ohio University in Athens, (1955–57), receiving military training in the Army ROTC program, which proved significant when Baldock allegedly became a combatant in the
182:; they were married July 13, 1989. Through her he became involved again in radical politics, specifically in Nicaraguan and Salvadoran solidarity work. In 1989, he left Black Oak, following a hostile takeover by his partners.
46:, the first listener-sponsored FM radio in the U.S. For over twenty years he produced public events for KPFA. As a poster artist he created original posters for these events, a number of which are in the collection of
42:, following which he initiated and cofounded the successful Black Oak Books, a store distinguished by its influential series of author readings. After being forced out of Black Oak Books, he went to work for
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Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke; Letters To a Young Poet; Sonnets To Orpheus; Rilke On Love and Other Difficulties; Duino Elegies; Stories of God.
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Translations from the Poetry of Rainer Maria Rilke; Letters To a Young Poet; Sonnets To Orpheus; Rilke On Love and Other Difficulties; Duino Elegies; Stories of God.
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Discovery Films: Exploration Production, Toronto, Canada. Features Baldock and several others who speak about the effect Castro had on their respective lives.
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Discovery Films: Exploration Production, Toronto, Canada. Features Baldock and several others who speak about the effect Castro had on their respective lives.
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Berkeley, 1997. Obituary tributes to Moe Moskowitz, owner of Moe's Books. print and online (to link click "Cached" on the site) :
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On The Finest Shore: Poems and Reminiscences of Moe,
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