Castro's Cuba Today
1963
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This newsreel shows:
- Havana harbor and shoreline
- military posters on walls and buildings
- children entering school
- a classroom and teacher writing on a blackboard
- men and women armed with rifles stand guard at stores in a shopping district at night
- medical supplies and food being unloaded from a ship
- old men, women, and children being evacuated, boarding the Red Cross ship Shirley Lykes — the sick are taken on litters aboard the ship
- Cubans being issued rifles and machine guns
- Cuban prisoners returning to Miami, Florida, on 12/23/1962 to tremendous crowds at the airport, embracing and kissing their families and friends
- James B Donovan, the New York lawyer who was responsible for their release, speaking at a microphone and posing before cameras at the airport
- refugees being helped down the gangway of a Red Cross ship at a dock
- nurses assisting mothers with small children
- the group of released prisoners riding in an open convertible
- men praying at the altar in church, and
- President John F. Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy speaking at a Cuban rally held in Miami stadium.
This primary source comes from the Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer.
National Archives Identifier: 29549
Full Citation: Motion Picture 111-LC-48162; Castro's Cuba Today; 1963; Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Record Group 111; National Archives at College Park, College Park, MD. [Online Version, https://docsteach.org/documents/document/castros-cuba-today, September 24, 2023]Rights: Copyright Not Evaluated Learn more on our privacy and legal page.
