From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 88
Image Count:
1
Description:
A potpourri of scenes of "behind rebel lines" daily life in the Santiago-Bayam zone. Frames 4-6 show Lt. Vilo Acuha testing homemade rifle-grenade launcher. (Acuha, then a Dcte., died with Che Guevara in Bolivia.) Frames 14-22 show a typical behind-the lines elementary school run by guerrilla command. Rebels began rural "alfabetizacion" program during this period. Frames 27-32 show three captured Batista Army officers who had decided to join the rebels. Cdte. Jose Quevedo is center: Capt. (fnu) Duran is left. The numberless, lower right-hand corner frame shows Cdte. Humberto Sorí Marin, then Rebel Army Judge Advocate General, with Capt. Ernesto Aloma Sabas, chief of Seccion del Café (beard). See also Print 11.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 89
Image Count:
1
Description:
Cdte. Juan Almeida Bosque, shown here in Frame 23 (Negro officer with beard and sombrero). In Frame 18, et seq. he is shown interrogating a very fat young woman (Frame 19) suspected of being a government informer. Frame 9: group of rebel radio and administrative staff including Melba Hernandez (extreme right, curlers, scarf), one of two women protagonists of Mocada attack on July 26, 1953.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 90
Image Count:
1
Description:
Top frames (4-9) show Melba Hernandez running rebel administrative office set up in abandoned store near Siboney. Frames 10-11: Cdte. Raul Chibas. Frames 22-30: Cdte. Juan Almeida Bosque, the column commander of this zone (slim, hatless Negro officer) inspects surgery of his columns' field hospital. Name of tall, bearded surgeon is unknown. Last frames show dispensary.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 91
Image Count:
1
Description:
On the top frames, Cdte. Almeida Bosque and his staff try - and fail - to cross the swollen Yao river in their command jeep. Frames 6-9 show Cdte. Almeida Bosque in front seat of another vehicle. Frames 1-5 show Cdte. Almeida Bosque's wireless station and chief radioman, Calixtt Vidal. Other frames show young amputee in Cdte. Almeida Bosque's column infirmary.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 92
Image Count:
1
Description:
Sentry duty in the immediate vicinity of Fidel Castro's headquarters at La Plata and other headquarters services were performed by this peloton de mujeres shown in frames 7-25. Frames 26-36 show Dr. Bernabe Ordaz, one of the senior rebel army medicos, in the Hospital Mario Mumoz, a field infirmary adjoining Fidel's La Plata headquarters. Last frame shows a young U.S. volunteer in rebel army.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 1, folder 95
Image Count:
1
Description:
These are faces of Fidel Castro's headquarters staff at La Plata in the fall of 1958. Frames 2-7: Cdte. Luis "El Guajiro" Crespo. Frame 9: Fidel's clerical secretary-assistant, Antonio Llibre. Frame 10: Fidel's chief cook and majordomo, Emilio Moran. Frame 11: Capt. Paneque, a member of radio staff - he was the encoding officer. Frames 20-22: Violeta Casals, the principal radio announcer of La Plata. Frame 18-19: Teresita Albau, Mme. Casals' assistant. Frames 8, 23-24: Orlando Pupo, Fidel's Jefe de Escolta (chief bodyguard). Frames 26-30: Ricardo Martinez, the principal male radio announcer at headquarters. Frames 13-17: Roberto Verdecia, one of troop leaders attached to Fidel's headquarters.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
undated
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 96
Image Count:
1
Description:
Personalities at Fidel Castro's La Plata headquarters. Frames 24-27: Fidel Castro. Frames 6-16, 18-19: Teresita Carmon, a courier. Frames 3-5: Pablo "El Veguero," a headquarters aide. Man with beret: name unknown.