Book X Print 35: Catholic religious procession; Faure Chomón Mediavilla on television
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Description
- Title
- Book X Print 35: Catholic religious procession; Faure Chomón Mediavilla on television
- Creator
- From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
- Contributor
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From the Collection: St. George, Andrew, 1924-2001
From the Collection: Stone, David C. - Published / Created
- undated
- Description
- Two sets of apparently unrelated images. The top four rows of images show a massive Catholic religious procession in which the image of Jesus Christ is carried on a flowered litter through the streets of an unidentified provincial city, possibly Santa Clara. The bottom two rows of images show Faure Chomón Mediavilla, a former leader of the Directorio Revolucionario, an organization of university students that together with the Organización Auténtica, carried out a failed assault on the Presidential Palace on March 13, 1957, for the sole purpose of assassinating the dictator Fulgencio Batista. After the failure of the plan and the arrest or killing without trial of most of its participants, Chomón joined others in founding and directing the operations of a second guerrilla front in the Escambray mountains of Santa Clara province for the remainder of the war. Chomón remains a central figure in Cuba's Castro-led government. Here, Chomón is making a televised appearance in which he responds to the questions of two unidentified journalists (seated to his right), also serving as hosts.
- 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
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English
Spanish
Item Location
- Repository
- Manuscripts and Archives
- Call Number
- MS 650
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Manuscripts and Archives
Cuban revolution collection
Series I: Andrew St. George Photographs, Films, and Papers, 1957-1960
Photographs
Contact Book X
- THIS ITEM Book X Print 35: Catholic religious procession; Faure Chomón Mediavilla on television
- Container / Volume
- Box 7, folder 747
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Access And Usage Rights
- Access
- Public
- Rights
- The use of this image may be subject to the copyright law of the United States (Title 17, United States Code) or to site license or other rights management terms and conditions. The person using the image is liable for any infringement.
- Citation
- Cuban Revolution Collection (MS 650). Manuscripts and Archives, Yale University Library.
Identifiers
- Orbis Record
- 614150
- Object ID (OID)
- 10018799