Book VI Print 29: Demonstration in response to Pedro Díaz Lanz's leaf dropping air raid

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Title: Book VI Print 29: Demonstration in response to Pedro Díaz Lanz's leaf dropping air raid
Creator: From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Contributor: From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C.
Published / Created: 1959 October
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.
Provenance: Purchased from Andrew St. George in 1969 and from David C. Stone in 1970. Gift of Adolfas Mekas, 2010. Transferred from the Latin American Collection Curator, 2016.
Extent of Digitization: This object has been partially digitized.
Language: Multiple languages

Repository

Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 650

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Container / Volume

Box 4, folder 398

Access: Public
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Citation: Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.