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- ↑ "James Wade Gilley". www.marshall.edu. Archived from the original on 2015-02-23.
- ↑ "Finding Aid for the J. Wade Gilley Collection AR.0600". Archived from the original on 2015-06-19. Retrieved 2022-06-04.
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