Book VI Print 65: Visit of United States Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal with Fidel Castro; Fidel Castro speech denouncing 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 Print 65: Visit of United States Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal with Fidel Castro; Fidel Castro speech denouncing Huber Matos

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Title: Book VI Print 65: Visit of United States Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal with Fidel Castro; Fidel Castro speech denouncing 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: Top two rows of frames show U.S. Ambassador Philip W. Bonsal as he exits the Cuban Presidential Palace after a meeting with Cuban officials in the company of two unidentified Cuban men and armed guards, including a member of the PMR, Policía Militar Revolucionaria. Bottom images show Fidel Castro giving a televised address to the nation on October 19, 1959, in which he denounced Commander Huber Matos of treason and of being a puppet of counterrevolutionaries for attempting to resign his post in protest over the increasing authoritarianism and influence of Communists within the new government. See also Prints 31, 32, 33, 35, 36, 37, 38, 42 and 60.
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

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Manuscripts and Archives

Call Number

MS 650

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Container / Volume

Box 4, folder 434

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