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Fulgencio Batista's police spy, Colonel Antonio Blanco Rico, is assassinated and General Rafael Salas Canizares shot in Cuba.

April 1956: Revolutionary forces in Cuba increase pressure on the government of Fulgencio Batista. Soldiers and Police patrol the streets. A U.S. Army officer talks to soldiers. A bullet ridden car. Soldiers and civilians around thirteen dead revolutionists lying between trucks in a courtyard. Batista and Defense Minister Garcia Montez inspect the captured arms and ammunition captured in police raids against the guerrilla rebels. Publicity and trials follow. Men wave pictures. October 1956: Exterior of a building. Batista's police spy Colonel Antonio Blanco Rico is assassinated. Picture of the rebel suspects in a newspaper. A man takes notes. General Rafael Salas Canizares is shot during an attack on the Haitian Embassy. Officers, officials and civilians surround General Canizares' coffin as it is led away. A man consoles a grieving woman.

Date: 1956
Duration: 1 min 21 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033303
Fidel Castro raises funds, buy arms and ammunition in the United States and Mexico, for the revolution in Cuba.

Cuban rebels against the Batista government work in exile in the U.S. and Mexico in 1956. New York encircled on the U.S. map. View of papers fluttering all around baseball field as the freedom fighters' leaflets cause a delay in a baseball game at Yankee Stadium in New York. Players on the baseball field view the scene. Miami encircled on the U.S. map. Castro raises funds for the revolution in Miami. Police and officials inspect arms confiscated from the revolutionaries. Close up scene of a payoff, with money changing hands between two men. Mexico City and Quintana encircled on a map. A huge war chest is raised in Mexico City. Castro buys arms and a 58 foot yacht equipped to carry fourteen people in Quintana. Ammunition dumped into a carton. Aerial view of an island. Wheel house on Castro's boat, the Granma, that goes aground. Officers and men on the boat. The radio operator sends a message dictated by an officer leading to ambush of the rebels by troops and police loyal to Batista. Soldiers load ammunition, stand guard, and enter gates. Some of Castro's men escape to the Sierra Maestra Mountains. A woman lays flowers on a revolutionists' grave, killed during the ambush by Batista's men. Men with load on horses. They cross a stream. A man with a machine gun. Soldiers advance in the jungle, talk to civilians and rest. Soldiers eat fruits, including girls who have joined Castro's movement. Fidel Castro seated in a chair while a man trims his hair. Soldiers shoot at a plane in the sky. A soldier loads his rifle. A woman stitches a shirt with the name 'JULIO' on it. A woman dries clothes on a clothes line.

Date: 1956
Duration: 2 min 42 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033304
U.S. President Eisenhower attends conference of Presidents of the American Republics, in Panama

Overview of Panama City, Panama. U.S. Presidential Lockheed Constellation airplane, the Columbine, taxis in after landing. U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower deplanes is greeted by representatives of the American Republics. Building in which meetings will be held. The Heads of State of American countries seated at a conference table. Place names visible include: Peru; Bolivia; Uruguay;Nicaragua; Haiti;Mexico;Equador;United States; Cuba;Venezuela;and Paraguay. Large group of photographers record event. "Cromocine" written on side of one camera. On July 22, 1956, President Eisenhower, in tuxedo with white dinner jacket, and other Heads of State, and ladies formally dressed, enter a reception hall, where President of host country, Panama, decorates the attending heads of state, including President Eisenhower.

Date: 1956, July 21
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675061322
President Dwight Eisenhower speaks about changes in Sugar Act at a Press Conference in White House.

President Dwight Eisenhower on mike answering questions raised by a journalist about changes in Sugar Act, related to Cuba's sugar quota. Reporters writing in notebooks. Close view of President replying. He says United States of America has always been friendly with Cuban people. Journalists applaud and start moving out.

Date: 1956, September 11
Duration: 3 min 29 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675039053