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Castro, Raul Castro, Jose Miro Cardona and former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev during the Cuban Revolution in Havana, Cuba.

The Cuban Revolution in Havana, Cuba. Peasants at work in sugar cane field. Clusters of huts in city slums. Poor people in the slums. Small huts along the slums. A girl bathing a child in front of a hut. Fidel Castro, a revolutionary leader, with other guerrillas in a hilly area. Castro, who supports the middle class people, in a crowd. People on streets applaud. Castro with Cuban people. His brother Raul Castro and his associate Che Guevara during a revolution in Guatemala. Castro speaking in a microphone. Other officials beside him. A large crowd listens to him and applauds. Fidel Castro with Cuban Prime Minister Jose Miro Cardona, former Soviet Premier Nikita Khrushchev and other officials after the overthrow of the Batista government. A Cuban firing squad executing a prisoner.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 47 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675066496
U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower answers a query on Communist menace in Cuba during a press conference in Washington DC.

U.S. President Dwight Eisenhower's 175th press conference in Washington DC, United States. One of the pressmen asks the President that a note delivered to the Cuban Government had a discussion on the menace of communism. He asked the President as to why it was included in the note. The President says that he thinks Communism to be a very obvious subject to bring up whenever there is a troubled area where it might take hold. Everybody knows that the Communists like to fish in troubled waters and there are certainly troubled waters in Cuba. He says that he thinks it wouldn't have been right if anything had not been mentioned to call attention to the seriousness of the Communist menace.

Date: 1959, November 4
Duration: 59 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675070010
Che Guevara talks and Cubans receive Red Chinese Guns and Anti Aircraft guns in Cuba.

Che Guevara talks with his fellows. The United Nations office at New York. Brief shot of Fidel Castro greeting Soviet leader Khrushchev in New York City in 1960. Cuban man holds rifle. Cubans receive Red Chinese arms including Chinese submachine guns. Cuban soldiers receiving instruction in use of the submachine gun. Fidel Castro talks with his men. Cuban rebels soldiers on the alert by an Anti Aircraft gun (AA Gun). Cuban soldier traverse AA gun. Cuban women in a line with weapons, including one carrying a sub machine gun with a round ammunition drum mounted beneath it. Fidel Castro speaking.

Date: 1959
Duration: 57 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675033324
Batista sympathizers and families imprisoned by Fidel Castro, execution of prisoner by firing squad in Havana, Cuba

Opening title “Purge of Batista War Criminals Continuing”. View of the La Cabana Fortress. Castro soldier with wearing cross and carrying rifle standing guard. Sympathizers of former Cuban President Fulgencio Batista in prison. Batista sympathizers standing behind bars. A child of a Batista sympathizer looks at the camera behind bars. A family of Batista sympathizers behind bars, one of the women holding a baby. A panelist during a revolutionary tribunal trial against Batista sympathizers in La Cabana Fortress. A prisoner speaks before the revolutionary panel. A prisoner, wearing a hat, is marched to a wall. Prisoner waves his left arm. Prisoner is executed.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 12 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: None
Clip: 65675078506
Guerrillas doing activities near shore area.

Scene of boats at a coastal area in Cuba. Aerial view of shore. Guerrillas coming to shore area. A guerrilla wears hat. Guerrillas doing some activities and gather near a hut. A guerrilla loads a box on a boat. A ship going into the river.

Date: 1959
Duration: 1 min 28 sec
Sound: No
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Unedited
Language: None
Clip: 65675034307
The Cuban Missile Crisis in October 1962

Adlai Stevenson addresses the United Nations Security Council regarding the build up of missiles in Cuba. United State Navy ships form a blockade to stop further missile delivery to Cuba. In Cuba, soldiers operate anti-aircraft guns that have been set up on the waterfront Cuban soldiers hold their posts on streets, tops of buildings, and on posts all along sea shore. Fidel Castro addresses a public demonstration. Cubans seen marching. Signs in the crowd include, 'Apoyamos Lucha Contra El Imperialismo' and 'Adelante Fidel Venceremos' High powered reconnaissance cameras are fitted to a plane. A plane flies to take reconnaissance photos of Soviet bases in Cuba. Views of aerial photographs showing aircraft landing strips and missiles in Cuba. United States Marines arrive at Guantanamo bay. C-124 Globemasters in background. View of the Organization of the American States Building. U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk addresses the gathering. Exterior view of the United Nations building. Soviet representative Valerian Zorin address the Security Council.

Date: 1962, October 25
Duration: 6 min 4 sec
Sound: Yes
Color: Monochrome
Clip Type: Edited
Language: English
Clip: 65675036648