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Anti-Castro Cuban refugees picket in Florida protesting the United Nation money being spent for politics in Cuba.

Anti-Castro Cuban refugees picket the meeting of the United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization at the University of Florida. The pickets claim the United Nation money spent for politics in Cuba. Men and women hold banners written with 'Cuba hungry because of Castro', 'Cuba Food Hungry', 'Castro sold country to Communists'.

Date: 1967, September 19
Duration: 41 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675043040
United States monitoring Cuba and enforcing Kennedy's shipment quarantine order during the Cuban Missle Crisis

Community fallout shelters being stocked. Lorries and trucks on road carry supplies. View of Red Ball trucking line truck. Aerial, exterior view of United Nations Building in New York City. View inside United Nations building. United Nation Ambassador Stevenson asks the USSR delegate whether there are missile bases on Cuba. President Kennedy signs Quarantine order on what materials may be shipped to Cuba, to begin 10am on October 24, 1962. B-52 bombers take off, taking 24 hour missions. Interceptors and fighters take off. Views on aircraft carriers with fueling and takeoff operations on flight deck. Radar dishes and radio communications. U.S. battleship at sea. U.S. intercepts Soviet tanker and allows her to proceed. Reconnaissance aircraft over Cuba. Views of White House. SAC bombers and anti aircraft missiles on 5 to 15 minute alert to handle any critical situation. Interiors of control room inside the Headquarters of American Air Defense Command.

Date: 1962, October
Duration: 4 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675038967
Communist and anti-communist struggles, centered on Cuba, circa 1960. Also some flashbacks to World War 2 and Cold War images.

A pro Betancourt rally in Venezuela. Crowds gathered with signage against Fidel Castro and in support of Romulo Betancourt. Betancourt addresses the crowds from a podium on a stage, outdoors. A man sitting looking at a radio tower. Images of radio control equipment and sign wave signatures on a scope. Scenes of protest and rioting in a Latin American or South American city. Police combating demonstrators. Vehicles overturned. Citizens running through the streets. Crowds being sprayed by fire hoses from moving fire trucks. Close up views of a newspaper "La Prensa" indicating Fidel Castro's support of the Communist party in Peru. Headline, "Fidel Castro Financia al partido comunista Peruano." An inside headline from the same paper reads, "La Embajada de Cuba Distribuye Propaganda Subversica en el Peru" indicating that an Ambassador from Cuba distributed anti-government, subversive propaganda en Peru. What follows are a series of images drawing parallels between Castro and other fascist historical leaders. Castro speaking forcefully, then a cut to historical excerpts from speeches by Hitler and Goebels in Germany during World War II. A scene with Hitler speaking and gesticulating wildly and forcefully, followed by a scene with Castro doing the same. A wooden sign with skull and crossbones and the words "HALT! STOJ!" on it. Prisoners in a German Nazi concentration camp, thin, weary, and huddled near a barb wire perimeter fence circa early 1945. Nikita Khrushchev on a review stand waving his hat to Soviet Army forces marching below him carrying guns with bayonets fixed. Chinese citizen-military forces (possibly early Red Guard) at a rally, with young women and young men raising rifles in the air . Soviet Russian leader Nikita Khrushchev shaking hands with Chinese leader Mao Zedong, Chairman of the Communist Party of China. A group of Chinese workers digging ditches, including men and women Chinese workers. Still image of Khrushchev and Castro embracing. An anti-communist rally in Cuba.

Date: 1963
Duration: 2 min 55 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675031120
U.S. President Kennedy addresses American people about the buildup of arms in Cuba by Soviets.

Events held in the United States during the Cuban Missile Crisis of October 1962 when the United States and the Soviet Union confronted each other with nuclear destruction. Top advisors of U.S. President John Kennedy arrive at the White House. Americans buy newspapers. President Kennedy makes a TV announcement about the crisis and what has been happening. He states that a strict quarantine on all offensive military equipment under shipment to Cuba is being initiated to halt offensive buildup of nuclear arms. He says that all ships of any kind bound for Cuba from whatever nation and port , if found to contain cargoes of offensive weapons, will be turned back. This quarantine will be extended, if needed, to other types of cargo and carriers. He further states that it shall be the policy of the United States to regard any nuclear missile launched from Cuba against any nation in the Western Hemisphere as an attack on the United States, requiring a full retaliatory response upon the Soviet Union. Exteriors of the White House. An electronic billboard flashing news. Americans being interviewed by newsmen along a street.

Date: 1962, October 22
Duration: 2 min 19 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070171
Cuban volunteers leave Tampa, Florida for Santiago de Cuba during the Spanish-American War

Cuban volunteers depart Tampa, Florida to participate in the Spanish-American War. The Cuban volunteers carry rifles and their bedrolls as they walk on gangway to board a ship. The first United States troops land in Cuba. View of the pier at Daiquirí, Cuba. Coal dumps and ore elevators from a mining company are seen at the end of the wharf. Soldiers lead pack mules carrying supplies and ammunitions in Santiago de Cuba. The 34th Michigan Regiment under command of Captain Dodd of Troop E, 3rd Regular Cavalry are working with picks and shovels to build a road.

Date: 1898, June 22
Duration: 2 min 56 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675080657
Cuban Army Pilots revolt and Cuban Foreign Minister accuses U.S. of committing aggression at the United Nations conference.

Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. A Cuban Air Force B-26 aircraft in Cuba. Cuban pilots participated in revolt and then take refuge in Florida. Pilot surrounded by a large number of people. In Havana the acting Foreign Minister shows fragments of shells to the diplomats. The United Nations conference. Cuban Foreign Minister accuses U.S. of committing aggression against Cuba. U.S. Ambassador to the UN, Adlai Stevenson, denies the charges. Training site in Guatemalan foothills where Cuban rebels allegedly were trained. Soldiers with their guns. More troops train. Fidel Castro addresses a large crowd of people.

Date: 1961, April
Duration: 2 min 10 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675033521