Book VI Print 35: Officials presiding over mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos
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10018405
Description
- Title
- Book VI Print 35: Officials presiding over mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos
- Creator
- From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
- Contributor
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From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C. - Published / Created
- 1959 October
- Description
- The top row and two bottom rows of frames show the balcony and officials presiding over a mass rally called by Fidel Castro for October 26, 1959, and organized by government-affiliated labor unions to express support for Fidel Castro's decision to arrest Commander Huber Matos for resigning his military post and to charge him with treason and attempting to conspire against the revolutionary government. Matos was later sentenced to twenty years in prison. The rally was also called in order to show popular support for the recommissioning of Revolutionary Tribunals to try internal enemies of Cuba for counterrevolution and to protest recent incursions into Cuban airspace by Florida-based planes that had been carrying out bombing, leafletting and other violent raids on Cuba in order to topple the government. Frames 16-18, 10-12 and 22-24 show President Osvaldo Dorticós addressing the crowds from the balcony of the Presidential Palace. The middle two rows of images show an armed sharpshooter perched on the roof of a building adjacent to the Presidential Palace, as well as evidence of counterrevolutionary vandalism on the window of a building crowded by onlookers and police. See also Prints 36, 37, 38, 44, 46, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 70.
- Provenance
- Purchased from Andrew St. George in 1969 and from David C. Stone in 1970. Gift of Adolfas Mekas, 2010. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, 2016.
- Extent of Digitization
- This object has been partially digitized.
- Language
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Multiple languages
Item Location
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives
- Call Number
- MS 650
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- Manuscripts and Archives
- Cuban revolution collection
- Series I: Andrew St. George Photographs, Films, and Papers, 1957-1960
- Contact Book VI
- Book VI Prints 35-36: Mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos
- THIS ITEM Book VI Print 35: Officials presiding over mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos
- Photographs
- Contact Book VI
- Book VI Prints 35-36: Mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos
- THIS ITEM Book VI Print 35: Officials presiding over mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos
- Container / Volume
- Box 4, folder 404
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- Public
- Rights
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- Citation
- Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 614150
- Object ID (OID)
- 10018405