Book VI Print 47: Mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos

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Title
Book VI Print 47: Mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos
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
Scenes of 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 in those days. This print shows the enormity of the crowds and, from a distance, the large banners many were carrying. To the right of many of the frames, especially 6, 7, 32, 27 and 28, one can see the remaining ruin of the old wall of the city of Havana with a sign on it that shows Fidel Castro's face painted in profile next to those of José Martí and Antonio Maceo, nineteenth-century independence heroes and martyrs. Frames 2-3 document the positioning of rifle-bearing sharpshooters on the roof of the Presidential Palace, keeping watch over the crowd and speakers. See also Prints 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 46, 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
Multiple languages

Item Location

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives
Call Number
MS 650
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Container / Volume
Box 4, folder 416

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

Identifiers

Orbis Record
614150
Object ID (OID)
10018417

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