Deputy Premier of Soviet Union Anastas Mikoyan in Havana with other officials at speakers stand. View of crowd cheering. Fidel Castro and Soviet Premier Mikoyan with others at the ceremony. Fidel Castro looking into telescope.
Damage in the exhibition rooms and offices of Cuban Electric Company in Havana by an explosion. Revolting workers bomb the building. Huge crowd on the street. Cars and pedestrians pass by the broken glass windows of Cuban Electric Company. Security guard stands in front of the damaged building.
Officials and military officers wait for arrival of diplomats, Roman Catholic Bishop or Cardinal is present. Diplomats sit at table and read official statement.. Honor guard of Soldiers march past crowd lining grounds. Automobiles parked in background. Crowd swarms over grounds after honor guard passes. Officials pose for pictures outside the Palace.
Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro speaks over a microphone. He organizes a vast civilian militia. Cuban women and student militia march with rifles. March 1960: A French ship named 'La Coubre' loaded with Belgian arms catches fire at the Havana Harbor. Fire engines arrive. Fire fighters try to put out the fire. Smoke arises due to the explosion of arms and ammunition on board. The fire fighters use water hoses as people run away from the fire. Black and white smoke shrouds the helicopter from which Castro is surveying the scene. Charred and wrecked buses. Fire fighters and civilians carry and help the wounded. Wrecked equipment and ship. A tube in the water. Ernesto Che Guevara looks on. Fidel Castro addresses Cuban sailors and civilians, blaming United States agents for blowing up the ship. A large crowd demonstrates on the streets.
1st May 1960: top officials turn out for a communist rally in Havana. Prime Minister Fidel Castro, National Bank President Ernesto Che Guevara and Cuban President Osvaldo Dorticos Torrado address the rally. They denounce the United States in their speeches. Girls with rifles. Officers, young boys and girls in the rally. People wave the Cuban flag. Soldiers on a tank. Police officers on motorcycles.
DesRon 2 ASW (anti-submarine warfare) "hunter killer" exercises of the USS Wallace L Lind (DD-703) and USS Charles P Cecil, (DD-835) underway in Guantanamo Bay. SH-3A helicopters in flight above water. Helicopter dips sonar in water. An S-2E Med Evac is seen in flight, flying toward signal flare in the water with its mad boom extended.