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4 unusual facts about Bob Baldock


Bob Baldock

Not long after separating from Jeanne Forrest Baldock in 1985, he met his future wife, writer and translator Kathleen Weaver; they were married July 13, 1989.

As a poster artist he created original posters for these events, a number of which are in the collection of Oakland Museum of California.

After graduation from Sewickley High School, 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 became a combatant in the 26th of July Movement insurgency against Fulgencio Batista led by Fidel Castro in Cuba.

Kathleen Weaver

Following the dissolution of her marriage to Francovich in 1986, she became associated with and later married painter, poster and printmaker, KPFA Radio public events producer, and co-founder of Black Oak Books, Bob Baldock— one of only two North Americans who went from the mainland in March, 1958, to join Fidel Castro’s own 26th of July Group as a combatant in the Sierra Maestra of Cuba.



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