Book VI Print 55: Guests and officials at mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos

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Manuscripts and Archives > Cuban revolution collection (MS 650) > Series I: Andrew St. George Photographs, Films, and Papers > > Photographs > Contact Book VI > Book VI Prints 53-59: Mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos > Book VI Print 55: Guests and officials at mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos


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Title
Book VI Print 55: Guests and officials at mass rally in support of Fidel Castro's arrest of Huber Matos
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
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.
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

Item Location

Repository
Manuscripts and Archives
Call Number
MS 650
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Container / Volume
Box 4, folder 424

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

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Orbis Record
614150
Object ID (OID)
10018425

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