Book VI Print 69: Demonstrations against incursions into Cuban airspace by Pedro Díaz Lanz

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Title
Book VI Print 69: Demonstrations against incursions into Cuban airspace by Pedro Díaz Lanz
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
Images of protestors blocking traffic on Calle Línea in el Vedado (frames 28-30, 31-33, 35-36) and the Malecón of Havana (frames 19-24, 16-18, 25-27) in response to the Cuban government's announcement that Pedro Díaz Lanz, the head of Cuba's revolutionary Air Force who had defected to Miami in June of 1959, had carried out a leafletting air raid over Havana and that subsequent encounters with Cuban jets resulted in damage to buildings below, allegedly by bombs dropped from his plane. Díaz Lanz eventually landed again at a base in Florida. The Cuban government called this incursion on their airspace for terroristic purposes, "Havana's Pearl Harbor." Frames 4-9 show a private car with a sign on the windshield that reads "Partieron de Estados Unidos los aviones." The air raid took place on October 20, the same day that Commander Huber Matos was arrested for treason, so these pictures were probably later that same day or the following day. See also Prints 29, 45, 63, 68 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 438

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

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Orbis Record
614150
Object ID (OID)
10018439

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