From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 399
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of protestors blocking traffic on Calle Línea in el Vedado (frames 9, 10, 27, 28) and the Malecón (frames 7, 8 and 26) 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 relatively minor incursion on their air space for terroristic purposes, "Havana's Pearl Harbor." In frame 9 and 10, a lone black man carries a barely legible protest sign as others crowd around him. See also Prints 29 and 69.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 400
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro giving a televised address to the nation on October 19, 1959, in which he denounced Commander Huber Matos of treason and of being a puppet of counterrevolutionaries for attempting to resign his post in protest over the increasing authoritarianism and influence of Communists within the new government. Audience members in the studio include (frames 23-25) Raúl Castro and Che Guevara. Frames 30-32 show an unidentified person from the United States sitting in the audience. See also Prints 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42 and 60.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 401
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes from Fidel Castro's televised address to the nation on October 19, 1959, in which he denounced Commander Huber Matos of treason and of being a puppet of counterrevolutionaries for attempting to resign his post in protest over the increasing authoritarianism and influence of Communists within the new government. Audience members in the studio include Raúl Castro and Che Guevara. In frames 4-9, Raúl Castro is seen taking notes during Fidel's presentation. In frames 11 and 12, Raúl is seen standing up to make a comment during his brother's speech. Frames 18-21 (backwards) show Fidel Castro standing next to Crescencio Pérez, the famed white-bearded peasant who first joined Fidel's army and encouraged other peasants to join. After the war, Fidel rewarded Pérez with a commission in the permanent standing army. See also Prints 31, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42 and 60.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 402
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of Fidel Castro giving a televised address to the nation on October 19, 1959, in which he denounced Commander Huber Matos of treason and of being a puppet of counterrevolutionaries for attempting to resign his post in protest over the increasing authoritarianism and influence of Communists within the new government. Frames in the second-to-last row of images show an unidentified audience member who appears to be American. See also Prints 31, 32, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42 and 60.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 403
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images taken from the angle of the stage as Fidel Castro gives the inaugural address to delegates of the annual American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) convention, held in Havana, beginning October 19, 1959. Frames 26-29 show U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticós posing with the President of ASTA and holding a "traditional" Cuban peasant hat among them. See also Prints 26, 27, 28, 41, 45, 51, 65, 73 and 74.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 404
Image Count:
1
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.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 405
Image Count:
1
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. Frames 13-15, 19-21 show President Osvaldo Dorticós addressing the crowds. Frames 35-37 depict the massive crowd of hundreds of thousands of people from the perspective of the balcony of the Presidential Palace or speakers' dais. See also Prints 35, 37, 38, 43, 44, 46, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 70.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 408
Image Count:
1
Description:
Members of the United States diplomatic corps stationed in Cuba, taken both inside and outside the U.S. Embassy in Havana. U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, appears at center in frames 11, 12-16, 36. St. George's visit probably coincided with Bonsal's efforts to counter Cuban government charges that the United States was aware of and complicit in the campaign of air raids from bases in Florida that batistianos and other exiles had begun launching against Cuba on October 20 of that year. See also Prints 40, 48, 49 and 64.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 409
Image Count:
1
Description:
Bottom two rows of frames show United States Embassy staff inside and outside the Embassy in Havana; frames 17-19 show United States Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal in his chauffeur-driven car with another official. Frames 15-19 show a woman and small boy looking up at a sign protesting United States complicity with acts of aggression carried out by planes based in Florida and directed by former batistianos and their allies in Miami. The sign reads (in grammatically poor English): "Till when will USA permit the bomber to Cuba?" In the background of the photograph stands the United States Embassy. Very bottom close-up images of Fidel Castro were taken as he gave a televised address to the nation and denounced Commander Huber Matos of treason and counterrevolutionary conspiracy for the first time following the latter's voluntary resignation of his post on October 19, 1959. For additional images of embassy officials at the Embassy, see Prints 39, 48, 49, 64. For images of Fidel Castro's televised address of October 19, see also Prints 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42 and 60.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 410
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes from the October 19th evening broadcast of "Ante la Prensa" at which Fidel Castro would address the nation to denounce Commander Huber Matos' resignation of his military post as treason. Bottom images, taken from the angle of the stage, show Fidel Castro giving the inaugural address to delegates of the annual American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA) convention, held in Havana, beginning October 19, 1959. For related images of the televised broadcast of "Ante la Prensa," see Prints 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42 and 60; for related images of ASTA, see Prints 26, 27, 28, 45, 51, 65, 73 and 74.
