From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 411
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. Frames 13 and 14 show a group of armed peasant militiamen standing up after apparently being recognized by Fidel Castro during the course of his address. Frames 8, 9 and 15 show an unidentified U.S. official sitting in the audience. See also Prints 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38 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 414
Image Count:
1
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.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 415
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. See also Prints 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 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 416
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. 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.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 417
Image Count:
1
Description:
U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, holding a press conference and answering questions for the Cuban and foreign press in his office at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. At the time, Bonsal was countering 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 418
Image Count:
1
Description:
Bottom three rows show U.S. Ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, holding a press conference and answering questions for the Cuban and foreign press in his office at the U.S. Embassy in Havana. At the time, Bonsal was countering 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 20th of that year. Top two rows depict a national folkloric dance show held in the Plaza of the Cathedral of Old Havana in the front courtyard of an eighteenth-century mansion that had been converted into a restaurant known as La Casona. See also Prints 40, 48, 49, 50 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 419
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of a national folkloric dance show held in the Plaza of the Cathedral of Old Havana in the front courtyard of an eighteenth-century mansion that had been converted into a restaurant known as La Casona. See also Print 49.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 420
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of images show United States Ambassador to Cuba, Philip W. Bonsal, addressing the inaugural session of the annual convention of the American Society of Travel Agents (ASTA), held in Havana beginning October 19, 1959. Fidel Castro and President Osvaldo Dorticós would also preside over the inauguration of the week-long convention. With the exception of frames 35, 36 and 37 of row three, which depict Fidel Castro giving a televised address to the nation on "Ante la Prensa," the remaining images show an entertainment spectacle staged at a dinner for ASTA participants. See also Prints 26, 27, 28, 34, 41, 45, 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 421
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show the entertainment show organized for delegates to the ASTA convention held in Havana for a week beginning October 19, 1959. The second and third rows of frames show the crowd gathered for a mass rally called by Fidel Castro for October 26th, 1959, in support of his decision to arrest Commander Huber Matos on charges of treason for resigning his post and to protest recent air raids by counterrevolutionary exile groups, largely comprised of batistianos, based in Florida. For images related to the ASTA convention, see also Prints 26, 27, 28, 34, 41, 45, 65, 73 and 74; for images related to the mass rally, see 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 47, 46, 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 422
Image Count:
1
Description:
Close-up shots taken from the ground-level 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 air raids by counterrevolutionary exile groups, largely comprised of batistianos, based in Florida. See also Prints 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 47, 46, 52, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 70.
