From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 190
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows the context of popular fervor in which Fidel is speaking as a massive crowd floods the street in front of him. In frame 3, St. George has marked the figure of Fidel with a handwritten arrow made with a blue pen. These images appear to show the city of Santa Clara and were probably taken on one of the last stops Fidel would make as he and his motorcade made their way to Havana for the declaration of the rebel victory.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 13
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 193
Image Count:
1
Description:
Scenes of anti-impunity demonstrations protesting United States criticism of trials of Batista officials and politicians allied to the Batista regime. Frames 17 and 22-34 show demonstrators flooding El Prado (Havana's main colonial and national-era thoroughfare) and extending all the way down to the Malecón, directly in front of the former Presidential Palace. Frames 10-11 show demonstrators in front of the Museo Nacional de Arte (now Museo de Bellas Artes, Colección Cubana) and frames 18-21 show demonstrators packing the street in front of the Corona cigar factory. Signs in frames 12, 25 and 26 held by different demonstrators read "Castigo a los culpables." Signs in frames 29-30 are written for a United States audience, saying "Justice-Mister-Cuba." Frames 35-36 show a red cross worker coming to aid a woman demonstrator who has fainted from the heat and crowds. See also Prints 69-75.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 July
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 131
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows United States hostages held by Raúl Castro's forces in the liberated zone created by his recently opened Second Front "Frank País," preparing to be released. The hostages were taken as part of a defensive strategy developed in June 1958 when evidence emerged that the United States was continuing to ship military supplies (such as napalm) to Batista's air force through Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, despite the fact that the United States had declared an official embargo on further arms shipments in March of that year. In May, Batista's air force flew over one hundred flights that bombed and attacked the civilian population in the mountains that offered aid to the rebels. The hostage (shown shaving in frames 5-7) appears to be one of the United States company employees taken hostage, rather than a marine. The twenty-eight marines captured were being held elsewhere. See also Prints 1-5, 7, and 8.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1958 July
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 2, folder 132
Image Count:
1
Description:
This print shows United States hostages held by Raúl Castro's forces in the liberated zone created by his recently opened Second Front "Frank País," preparing to be released. The hostages were taken as part of a defensive strategy developed in June 1958 when evidence emerged that the United States was continuing to ship military supplies (such as napalm) to Batista's air force through Guantánamo Bay Naval Base, despite the fact that the United States had declared an official embargo on further arms shipments in March of that year. In May, Batista's air force flew over one hundred flights that bombed and attacked the civilian population in the mountains that offered aid to the rebels. The four American men shown in frames 11-20 with their guerrilla captors were being interviewed by visiting foreign reporters. They worked for the nearby United States government-owned Nícaro Nickel Mining Company. See also Prints 1-6 and 8.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 14
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 210
Image Count:
1
Description:
Flown in from Oriente Province at the government's behest, family members of Jesús Sosa Blanco's victims are seen as they testify before the accused in public trial at Havana's national sports stadium on January 14, 1959. The stadium was selected as the location for the event because it had the greatest number of seats. Several of these witnesses are shown pointing to the men being held by guerrilla rebels and identifying them as their relatives' murderers. Frames 17-20 depict the entrance to the national sports arena as cars gather and people make their way inside. Frame 21 shows two women wearing black and holding a photograph and long newspaper article detailing the horrors of their relative's murder at the hands of Batista's police forces. The same women appear in images with much better lighting on Print 86, frames 17-20. See also Prints 69-75, 81-84, 86-91.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 14
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 211
Image Count:
2
Description:
Flown in from Oriente Province at the government's behest, family members of Jesús Sosa Blanco's victims are seen as they testify before the accused in public trial at Havana's national sports stadium on January 14, 1959. The stadium was selected as the location for the event because it had the greatest number of seats. Several of these witnesses are shown pointing to the men being held by guerrilla rebels and identifying them as their relatives' murderers. Frames 31-33 show a particularly elderly woman with head scarf as she testifies before microphones. See also Prints 69-75, 81-85, 87-91.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 14
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 212
Image Count:
1
Description:
Flown in from Oriente Province at the government's behest, family members of Jesús Sosa Blanco's victims are seen as they testify before the accused in public trial at Havana's national sports stadium on January 14, 1959. The stadium was selected as the location for the event because it had the greatest number of seats. Several of these witnesses are shown pointing to the men being held by guerrilla rebels and identifying them as their relatives' murderers. See also Prints 69-75, 81-86, 88-91.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 14
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 213
Image Count:
1
Description:
These images document the first internationally televised trial by revolutionary tribunal of Jesús Sosa Blanco, the captain of the military and intelligence force of the city of Holguín under Batista who had earned a grisly reputation for making civilians disappear and torturing prisoners. Top frames show a young man wearing a checkered shirt pointing as he testifies to the horrors committed by Jesús Sosa Blanco against a relative during the Batista years. The second row of images features two frames (9-10) in which the boy is being restrained from assaulting the defendant by several members of Castro's guerrillas. Frames 13-15 show a reporter talking to Fidel Castro's son, Fidelito, as he observes the public trials of batistianos. Frames 11-12 show Raúl Chibás with two unidentified guerrillas as they preside over the trial. The trial formed part of "Operation Truth" and took place at Havana's national sports stadium, selected because it had the greatest number of seats. See also Prints 69-75, 81-87, 89-91.
From the Collection: Yale University. Department of Manuscripts and Archives
Published / Created:
1959 January 14
Call Number:
MS 650
Container / Volume:
Box 3, folder 214
Image Count:
1
Description:
These images document the first internationally televised trial by revolutionary tribunal of Jesús Sosa Blanco, the captain of the military and intelligence force of the city of Holguín under Batista, who had earned a grisly reputation for making civilians disappear and torturing prisoners. The trial formed part of "Operation Truth" and took place on January 14, 1959, at Havana's national sports stadium, selected because it had the greatest number of seats. In this print, a small child is seen testifying (frames 8-10, 13), as well as an elderly woman (frames 26-28). The mass number of press photographers is apparent in frames 14-25 and the defendant himself can be seen with hands cuffed, surrounded by armed rebel guards in frames 21-23. See also Prints 69-75, 81-88, 90-91.