From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 317
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print depicts Fidel Castro as he lays a wreath at the Jefferson Memorial in Washington, D.C. Fidel Castro made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 55-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of his visit to the Jefferson Memorial, see Prints 70 and 74.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 318
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows Fidel Castro at the cocktail reception held at the National Press Club on the day that he addressed an audience of over 600 who attended the luncheon held in his honor. Fidel Castro made the trip to Washington, D.C., in mid-April, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 56-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of Fidel Castro's appearance at the National Press Club, see Prints 60, 64, 67, 75, 76 and 78.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 319
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro and Vice President Richard Nixon as they emerge from a private meeting at the White House during the former's unofficial trip to Washington, D.C., in April of 1959 (see esp. 8-12). Frames 23-27 show the two shaking hands and remaining frames show them answering reporters' questions. Fidel Castro made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 55-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of Fidel Castro after his meeting with Nixon, see Prints 59 and 69.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 320
Image Count:
1
Description:
The bottom rows of this print depict the massive crowd of security officers, reporters and on-lookers as they follow Fidel up to the Jefferson Memorial where he would leave a wreath before the statue and pose for reporters' cameras. Top five rows of images show Fidel Castro eating a large meal, including rice and beans, while talking with staff in his bedroom at what appears to be the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. Fidel Castro made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 55-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of his visit to the Jefferson Memorial, see Print 70 and 71. For other images of Fidel Castro dining in his bedroom with staff, see Print 77.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 321
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print contains a large number of frames that are double-exposed (frames 20-22, 23-25). They show two different events: Fidel Castro addressing an audience of over 600 at the National Press Club luncheon held in Washington, D.C., in his honor and his speech before the American Society of Newspaper Editors, which was responsible for inviting him to the United States in mid-April 1959. The latter address was given at the Statler Hilton; seated next to Fidel and visible in frames 34-37 were Rufo López Fresquet (wearing glasses), Cuba's Minister of the Treasury, and Teresa Casuso, Fidel Castro's personal assistant in charge of public relations and translator throughout the trip. López Fresquet can be seen more clearly in frame 15. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 56-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of Fidel Castro's appearance at the National Press Club, see Prints 60, 64, 67, 72, 76, and 78.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 322
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows Fidel Castro and Cuba's Minister of the Treasury Rufo López Fresquet seated next to one another at the head table during the National Press Club luncheon held in honor of Fidel Castro in Washington, D.C., in April, 1959. Fidel Castro made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 55-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of Fidel Castro at the National Press Club, see Prints 60, 64, 67, 72, 75, and 78.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 323
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel Castro eating a large meal, including rice and beans, while talking with staff in his bedroom at what appears to be the Cuban Embassy in Washington, D.C. Fidel Castro made the trip, together with a large entourage of well over a hundred people, on April 14, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 55-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of his visit to the Jefferson Memorial, see Print 70 and 71; for other images of Fidel Castro dining in his bedroom with staff, see Print 74.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 April
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 324
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames show Fidel Castro in a televised appearance on the NBC news show "Meet the Press." All other frames depict Fidel as he addressed attendants at a luncheon held by the National Press Club in Washington, D.C., in mid-April. Standing behind him is official interperter Anthony Hervas (hair parted, wearing glasses and slightly stooped); against the wall behind Hervas is a bodyguard. Fidel Castro made the trip to Washington, D.C., in mid-April, 1959, in response to the invitation of Jules Dubois, editor of the Chicago Tribune and then president of the American Society of Newspaper Editors. Fidel remained in the United States for more than two weeks, eventually touring cities on the eastern seaboard such as Boston, Princeton, New Jersey and New York City. For other images of Fidel Castro's trip to Washington and New York, see Prints 56-78 and Contact Book V; for other images of Fidel Castro appearing on "Meet the Press," see Prints 56, 61, 63, and 65; for other images of Fidel Castro at the National Press Club, see Prints 60, 64, 67, 72, 75, and 76.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 23-29
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 247-264
Image Count:
18
Description:
This collection of prints documents Fidel Castro's trip to Venezuela that began on January 23, 1959, with his arrival at Maiqueta airport in Caracas (see Book 3). Although revolutionary forces had just taken power in Cuba, Fidel Castro made his visit a priority and scheduled it to coincide with the first anniversary of the fall of Venezuela's ten-year dictatorship under General Marcos Pérez Jiménez on the 23 of January 1958 after a successful two-day general strike. One of the principal reasons for Castro's visit to Venezuela was to encourage support for multi-country cooperation in the organization, financing and training of invasion forces who could topple the remaining Caribbean dictatorships of Jean-Claude Duvalier in Haiti, the Somoza brothers in Nicaragua and Rafael Trujillo in the Dominican Republic (where both Fulgencio Batista of Cuba and Pérez Jiménez of Venezuela had fled before seeking permanent exile in Franco's Spain). Such attempted invasions did take place over the next year and a half, although all of them failed. In this set of prints, Prints 1-7 show Fidel Castro giving formal speeches before a joint session of the Venezuelan Congress in the Chamber of Deputies (see especially Prints 1, 4, 5, 6, 7, 8) and holding public meetings with local officials at the Palacio de Miraflores (especially Prints 9, 10, 18). Frames 13 and 14 of Print 10 show Fidel Castro flanked by Colonel Pedro José Quevedo and Captain of the Venezuelan Navy Miguel Rodríguez on his left and Cuban Ambassador Pividal on his right. Print 15 depicts Fidel and Venezuelan hosts having dinner at a long banquet table in an unusually sparse room at an unidentified location: the room features walls made of wooden planks; against the wall behind the speakers' table hang both the Cuban and Venezuelan flags. In frames 17 and 22 of Print 15, Fidel Castro is seen in the middle of the table with Celia Sánchez to his left. The press is also a significant presence, crowding around the front of the table. Prints 16 and 17 show Fidel Castro holding a private, two-hour meeting with Venezuela's new President Romulo Betancourt, elected only a few months earlier in a race against the candidate who had headed the military opposition that toppled Pérez Jiménez, Wolfgang Larrazabal (see Contact Book III). The meeting with Betancourt took place in his personal residence, an estate known as Marítmar in Caracas, on Sunday, the last night of Castro's visit. In his accompanying notes for this Contact Book, St. George pays special attention to Fidel Castro's speech at the Aula Magna of the University of Caracas, a visit documented in Prints 8, 11, 12, 13, and 14. In this group, Print 13 shows administrators of the university presenting Castro certificate of "Honor al Mérito" (frames 13-18, 23-24) and guerrilla members of his entourage enjoying milk shakes at the university cafeteria as the uniformed cafeteria staff crowds around their table (frames 3-4). According to St. George's notes, Fidel opted to remove his military cap and wear a beret in deference to the university's recent victory in gaining guarantees of institutional and political autonomy from the Venezuelan state over the last year. The beret was, in fact, a gift from the Orfeón Universitario, a student singing group that hailed Castro's arrival. Present at Castro's talk was Pablo Neruda, the Chilean poet. St. George also attests to the fact that Castro used the opportunity to announce his support for the training of a Dominican invasion force and introduced the Dominican-born captain of his rebel army, Enrique Jiménez, as its leader. Further images and direct citation of St. George's notes on this matter may be found in the description for Prints 34 and 37. See also Book 3, Prints 34 and 37.
