Book VI Prints 43-44: Fidel Castro addressing mass rally in support of his arrest of Huber MatosYale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives1959 OctoberengspaImages of Fidel Castro addressing a mass rally of Cubans whom he called out on October 26, 1959, to express support for his 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. All speakers addressed the crowd from the balcony of the Presidential Palace. Frames in the second row from the top of this print show Raúl Castro also addressing the crowds. See also Prints 35, 36, 37, 46, 47, 52, 53, 54, 55, 56, 57, 58, 59 and 70.