First week of January 1959: Fidel’s victory caravan to Havana; speeches and press conference along the way; civilian leaders of 26th of July Movement

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Title: First week of January 1959: Fidel’s victory caravan to Havana; speeches and press conference along the way; civilian leaders of 26th of July Movement
Creator: From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
Published / Created: 1959 January
Description: All photographs in this folder date from the first week of January 1959. Included are images of Fidel Castro’s caravan of cars and requisitioned tanks making their way westward from Oriente to Havana. In several images Fidel Castro is shown chatting with nuns as he makes one of his famous impromptu stops along the way. One photograph includes Castro with several Americans: Dr. Judson U. McGuire, Jr. (on Castro's right), an entomologist with the United States Department of Agriculture; Jules Dubois (wearing black necktie) of the "Chicago Tribune", and McGuire's daughter wearing a white blouse. There are also two shots of the airplane that took civilian members of the new government to Havana. One shows Armando Hart, Haydée Santamaría (his wife), Luis Busch, secretary to President Manuel Urrutia, and José Llanuga, identified as “organ director in the U.S.”. Another image of revolutionaries from the military and civilian wings of the 26th of July movement meeting on the tarmac with a uniformed man described as Major Julio Martínez Paez, a medical doctor (St. George notes on the verso “Min of Health 1st fulltime doc, Havana surgeon”). There is a photograph of a young 18-year-old guerrilla drinking Coca Cola as he guards the entrance to a plane. St. George identifies this man as Hanibal Hidalgo “son of Mario”. St. George also notes that the young man is doing guard duty as both Fidel Castro and the newly installed President Manuel Urrutia are on the plane. Two photographs taken at a Presidential Palace cocktail party in Havana show a rebel with Afro-style hair. On the back of one of these prints, St. George wrote, “At left one of Che Guevara aides allegedly killed with him in Bolivia.” There is a print of the revolutionary cabinet and Fidel Castro; he still did not occupy a position in the new government at the first major news conference held in Havana. Fidel is seen standing at the microphones, speaking. There are two prints of homemade busts of Fidel Castro with lottery tickets that were sold on the street by a vendor. The verso of this photographs reads: “‘22) Cuba’s Castro Craze produces these plaster of Paris busts which are sold by vendors along with national lottery tickets throughout Cuba. July 6th, the 8th anniversary of his civil war, is being celebrated by the presence of the Communist cosmonaut Major Yuri Gagarin. Credit: Andrew St. George ©1961 Magnum Photos.”
Provenance: Purchased from Jean Szentgyorgyi by the Latin American Curator, June 2009; transferred from the Latin American Curator to Manuscripts and Archives, 2012.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: English

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Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 1912

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Box 42, folder 7

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Citation: Andrew St. George Papers (MS 1912). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.

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Orbis Record: 9060277
Object ID (OID): 10021057