Book V Print 40: Fidel Castro leaving to visit the New York TimesYale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives1959 AprilengspaSurrounded by mass crowds and police escorts, Fidel Castro gets into a car in order to pay a visit to the New York Times where he publicly lauded Herbert Matthews, the first reporter to visit his then tiny band of guerrillas in the Sierra Maestra in late February of 1957 and to whose subsequent reports he owed much of his initial positive press and notoriety in the United States. During his visit to the newspaper's headquarters, Fidel awarded Matthews with a special gold medal for his service to the Revolution. These images were taken during the last days of Fidel Castro's April 1959 visit to the United States. See also Prints 36 and 45.