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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.
Letters from Spain (1938) is a brief collection of letters from Joe Dallet to his wife, Kitty (Peunig) Dallet. It was published as a pamphlet shortly after Joe Dallet died fighting in Spain.
- His background. Upon meeting Lewis Strauss, Oppenheimer (Cillian Murphy) remarks that he can relate to the fact that Strauss is a self-made man because his father was, too.
- The poisoned apple. While at Cambridge, Oppenheimer poisons his professor's apple after he's made to miss the beginning of a Niels Bohr lecture to clean up his sloppy lab work.
- His politics. Audiences expecting to see a movie about World War II may have been surprised by how much "Oppenheimer" is instead about closed-door politics.
- Jean Tatlock. Nolan's Oppenheimer says that only a fool or a child would presume to know what goes on in a relationship. He's talking about his wife, Kitty, but the sentiment is even more applicable to his romance with Jean Tatlock (Florence Pugh).
Before she could depart for Spain, the news arrived that Dallet had been killed in action on October 17, 1937. His letters to her were published as Letters from Spain by Joe Dallet, American Volunteer, to his Wife (1938).
May 1, 1981 · A Guy Named Joe. May 1981. In a tribute written long after his death, a writer for The Dartmouth called Joseph Anthony Dallet '27 "the first Dartmouth man killed in World War II." He died October 17, 1937, near Sargossa, Spain an officer of the Abraham Lincoln Brigade leading an attack across open ground in the face of fascist gunfire.
Case Study: “Letters from Spain: Joe Dallet, the Mac-Paps, and Canadian Identity in the Spanish Civil War” by Kaarina Mikalson. The Mackenzie-Papineau Battalion: Canadian Participation in the Spanish Civil War by Victor Hoar with Mac Reynolds. Toronto: Copp Clark Pub. Co., 1969.
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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.
