From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 1
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 175
Image Count:
1
Description:
These pictures document the second historic meeting of Fidel Castro and Manuel Urrutia Lleó, a judge whose support of the constitutionality of the rebels' assault on Batista's forces got him ousted from the bench and forced into exile in New York City. Fidel Castro had personally nominated Urrutia for the presidency of Cuba as early as 1957. In frames 21-35, one sees Urrutia speaking with Fidel Castro; to the left of both stands Armando Hart, the son of another judge who suffered a fate similar to Urrutia's for having protested the unconstitutionality of Batista's government in support of the rebels years before. In the top row of the print, frames 23-24 show Haydée Santamaría, Armando Hart's fiancé and legendary heroine of the 1953 assault on the Cuartel Moncada. Frame 25 shows the bearded Comandante Faustino Pérez, later Minister of the Ministry of Ill-Gotten Goods (Ministerio de Bienes Malversados), which oversaw the redistribution of millions of dollars of property confiscated from supporters and officials of the Batista regime. See also Prints 18, 19, 27 and 50.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 1-2
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 176
Image Count:
2
Description:
Frames 17 through 35 appear to show the rebel takeover of a government facility although the location is not clear. Featured in frames 17 through 26 are two Catholic priests in robes, speaking to rebels and a female reporter (wearing an armband that says 'prensa'). Frames 28-35 show Celia Sánchez in fatigues as she talks to the same female reporter. Bottom frames show the interior view of the room from whose balcony Fidel Castro addressed the nation on January 1, 1959, in Santiago de Cuba. See also Prints 9, 20, 22, 31-32 and 41.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 178
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 4 through 13 of this print show Roberto Agramonte, the Revolution's first Minister of Foreign Relations, meetings with other Cuban men, possibly advisors and new government officials, as they gather in a home, converse and discuss documents. Frames 14-23 appear to have been taken as St. George accompanied Agramonte to the airport and feature a number of "portrait shots" of unidentified passengers, a pilot (frames 14-15), reporters and at least one rebel (frame 16-17). Frames 19-20 show Agramonte as he boards the plane.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 179
Image Count:
1
Description:
Images taken inside an aircraft after dark. None of the passengers is identified. Frame 4 shows a man wearing the uniform of a Batista officer speaking to another man, probably an American, wearing a plain white shirt.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 182
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows Raúl Castro, surrounded by guerrillas, as he delivers his first national radio address after the fall of Batista; the address is apparently being televised from Oriente's central broadcasting station, CMKC, Radio Oriente. Frames 35 and 36 show Raúl holding a photograph of a masked man with a rifle and cowboy hat up to the audience; frame 37 shows him opening what appears to be a scrapbook. See also Prints 55, 56, 58 and 59.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 183
Image Count:
1
Description:
With the exception of frame 5, all images on this print show Raúl Castro, surrounded by guerrillas, as he delivers his first national radio address after the fall of Batista; the address is apparently being televised from Oriente's central broadcasting station, CMKC, Radio Oriente. Frame 5 in the top row shows a woman whose purse is being checked by a rebel guard at the entrance to a prison. See also Prints 55, 56, 57 and 59.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 184
Image Count:
1
Description:
Frames 15-32 of this print show Raúl Castro, surrounded by guerrillas, as he delivers his first national radio address after the fall of Batista; the address is apparently being televised from Oriente's central broadcasting station, CMKC, Radio Oriente. Frames 3-4, 8-9, 11-14 convey various scenes from inside a prison that is still under the watch of two Batista officials (seen keeping watch at a table in frames 8-9). Frames 5-7 show the street outside the prison where a jeep is parked and hundreds of people are gathering. See also Prints 55, 56, 57 and 58.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 185
Image Count:
1
Description:
Fidel grants an interview to an unidentified United States reporter whose back is to the camera. This picture was likely taken on January 9, 1959, the day after Fidel's victory speech to the nation, when he and his entourage installed themselves at the Havana Hilton.