Book VI Print 45: Fidel Castro giving speeches; protestors against incursions into Cuban airspace

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Title
Book VI Print 45: Fidel Castro giving speeches; protestors against incursions into Cuban airspace
Creator
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Contributor
From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C.
Published / Created
1959 October
Description
These images were taken on different occasions and depict separate events. The top row of images shows Fidel Castro delivering an address to a gathered crowd, largely composed of labor union members affiliated with the government, at the Presidential Palace on October 26, 1959. The third row of images shows Fidel Castro gesticulating while giving a televised speech at which he alleged the treason of Commander Huber Matos on the show "Ante la Prensa." The last row of images shows protestors stopping cars on the Malecón during the ASTA Convention to alert them to the fact that on the 20th of October, a flight originating from Florida had dropped leaflets over Havana and had, or so it was believed at the time, attempted to "bomb" the city, although it is unclear whether damage caused resulted from the aircraft itself or from shrapnel caused by anti-aircraft fire from the ground and the air that greeted it. Former Revolutionary Air Force chief Pedro Díaz Lanz who had defected to Miami in June and joined his former batistiano enemies in charging Fidel Castro with turning the Revolution "communist" was later found to have piloted the plane. The sign on the car in frame 10 of the last row reads "Partieron de Estados Unidos los Aviones" (The planes left from the United States"). For related images of the ASTA convention, see Prints 26, 28, 34, 41, 45, 51, 65, 73 and 74. For images of Fidel Castro denouncing Matos on television, see Prints 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42, 60 and 65. For images of the October 25th mass rally, see Prints 34, 41 43, 44, 46, 52, 47, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59, 66 and 70. For other images of the bombing protests, see Prints 63, 68, 69 and 71.
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
Multiple languages

Item Location

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives
Call Number
MS 650
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Container / Volume
Box 4, folder 414

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Citation
Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

Identifiers

Orbis Record
614150
Object ID (OID)
10018415

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