Book IV Print 70: Fidel Castro visiting the Jefferson MemorialYale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives1959 AprilengspaThis print depicts Fidel Castro and the massive crowd of on-lookers, press, bodyguards, police and companions that accompanied him as he visited 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 71 and 74.