From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 396
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top row of prints depicts Raúl Castro greeting delegates to the ASTA convention and offering them tiny cups of Cuban espresso at convention headquarters in the Havana Hilton. The second row of prints shows Fidel Castro addressing participants in the ASTA convention on the morning of October 19. Behind him are the United States, Cuban and ASTA flags; behind him is a banner reading "American Society of Travel Agents." Rows 4 and 5 show Fidel Castro later that evening as he addresses a national televised audience on "Ante la Prensa" and denounces Commander Huber Matos for having resigned his post in protest of what Matos alleged was increasing evidence of Communist influence. In this speech, Castro condemns Matos for resigning as a traitor and asserts that his resignation would have served as a prelude to an armed conspiracy. Frames 13-15 of the fourth row show Raúl Castro with Che Guevara at his side sitting in the studio audience. Frames 16 and 17 show Fidel Castro and Antonio Nuñez Jiménez. The last row of photos shows images taken of the mass demonstration before the Presidential Palace organized by state-affiliated labor unions in support of Castro's arrest of Matos and decision to reopen the Revolutionary Tribunals on October 26, 1959. 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 and 60. 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.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 398
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images of protestors blocking traffic on Calle Línea in el Vedado 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, 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 11, a lone black man carries a barely legible protest sign as others, including a boy wearing a metal helmet and a man wearing a militia uniform, look on. See also Prints 30 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 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.
