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.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 October
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 423
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes of Che Guevara addressing 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. These images were taken from the balcony of the Presidential Palace that served as a speakers' dais. See also Prints 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 47, 46, 52, 53, 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 424
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes of speakers and invited officials gathered on the balcony of the Presidential Palace for a mass rally called by Fidel Castro on 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. Frames 13-15 show Fidel Castro addressing the crowds; frames 18-23 show Fidel (wearing glasses) as he makes his way to the podium. Frames 27-29 and 30 show Carlos Prío de Socarrás, the last democratically-elected President of Cuba, who was overthrown by Fulgencio Batista's coup on March 10, 1952. Prío de Socarrás had been the leader of the Auténtico Party but returned to Cuba at the time after a three-month tour of Europe and expressed only support for Fidel Castro and his recent decisions. During Castro's speech at the rally that day, he made sure to point out Prío de Socarrás' presence on several occasions; it is possible that St. George took these photos just as Fidel was mentioning him to the crowd. Frames 4 and 5 depict a uniformed man wearing a badge on his shirtsleeve that reads "Milicia Obrera." See also Prints 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 47, 46, 52, 53, 54, 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 425
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images taken from the balcony of the Presidential Palace at a mass rally called by Fidel Castro on 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. Frames 15 and 17 show Rolando Cubelas, an important member of the Revolutionary Directorate, a student-based urban guerrilla group during the war against Batista. Frame 6 shows a man whose shirt sleeve proclaims his membership in a "milicia obrera" or workers' militia. Frames 7-10 show Fidel Castro waiting to take the podium. Frames 17-23 show Fidel Castro speaking and the bottom row of frames shows Che Guevara addressing the rally. See also Prints 35, 36, 37, 38, 43, 44, 47, 46, 52, 53, 54, 55, 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 429
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. Audience members in the studio include (frames 13-14, 29-32), Raúl Castro and Che Guevara. See also Prints 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, and 42.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 November
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 4, folder 430
Image Count:
2
Description:
These images document the spontaneous street celebrations and outpourings of joy that followed in the wake of the Revolutionary Armed Forces' false announcement that the beloved Commander Camilo Cienfuegos, who disappeared on the 28th of October on his way back to Havana from Camagüey in an alleged airplane crash, had been found alive. It took another several hours for the government to confirm that this news was false. Neither Camilo Cienfuegos' body, that of his co-pilot, nor any plane wreckage was ever found. See also Prints 67 and 72.
