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Background of the Castro revolution in Cuba
Fidel Castro and the Cuban revolution. Montage of scenes including revolutionary casualties, burning buildings, Castro addressing his followers, revolutionaries carrying weapons, a revolutionary being shot, firemen fighting fire, Women parading with weapons,armed revolutionaries advancing through bush country, and Castro addressing hundreds of thousands of people. View of lighthouse at entrance to Havana harbor.Hotel Nacional de Cuba. The Capitol building. A fruit peddlar on the street in Havana. Workers in sugar cane fields.Views of Havana under the Batista regime, with hotels, and casinos with roulette wheels and other gambling paraphenilia. U.S. Navy ships at he U.S. Navy station at Guantanamo Bay and a large aircraft at the Leeward Point Field, Guantanamo Naval Air Station. Bastista military forces drawing weapons from armory and operating a tank.Pilots climb aboard Federal warplanes and start them up. Cuban police forces at work. Bastista followers in control throughout the country. View of the Presidential Palace surrounded by Batista armed forces. Fulgencio Batista surrounded by followers.The Cuban constitution of is suspended by Bastista and President Carlos Prío Socarrás and his family are seen leaving Havana. Bastista conducts a cabinet meeting. Disenchanted Cubans hold a mock funeral for their Constitution. University students assembling and taking to the streets in protest against the Batista regime. Police break up the demonstrations with force. Injured protesters are treated in hospital. Protesters carry coffin of one who was killed. University protesters march with arms linked and many others also march on the Police headquarters. They carry effigy of Batista. Opposition political leaders are arrested by the Batista police.
Activities of anti-Batista revolutionaries, including Fidel Castro and Che Guevera, in Cuba
Cuban President Fulgenci Batista greets visiting officials as they enter the Presidential Palace in Havana. Armed soldiers guard the entrance way and an antiaircraft gun is seen on the sidewalk. Street scenes of armed conflict March 13, 1957, as a group of university students storms the Presidential Palace intent on executing dictator Fulgencio Batista. People scurrying for cover as armed police engage the attackers on downtown streets. Police armored personnel carrier sits in the street. A truck full of armed police reinforcements arrives. Ambulance drives on street. A policeman carries a wounded woman. Bullet holes in windows. A person killed in the conflict. Scene shifts to a rural area where a jeep drives along a dirt road past a revolutionary sentry. Several revolutionaries from Venuezela and other Latin American countries are seen along with Cubans, in the company of Fidel Castro, who converses with them. On July 30, 1957, a funeral is held in Santiago de Cuba, for revolutionary, Frank Pais, assassinated by police. People crowd the street as his coffin is carried out of the church.They shout "venganza," (revenge). Elsewhere, police stand over the bodies of killed revolutionaries. Scenes of people meeting and grieving. Revolutionaries in the bush country of Oriente province. They ride horses. Che Guevara seen with them working with arms and explosives. Burning building and damage resulting from attacks by Batista forces. Castro with revolutionaries organizing in Oriente. Che Guevera instructing in use of arms and explosives. Revolutionaries unleashing heavy gunfire at Bastista forces. A revolutionaries hospital treating a wounded member. Open fire fights between Bastista forces and Castro revolutionaries.
Castro revolutionaries make concerted assault against Batista's Federal forces in Cuba
Revolutionaries moving through the mountains during Cuban revolution. Buildings bombed and burned by Batista forces. Armed soldiers in defensive positions atop the Presidential Palace in Havana. President Fulgenci Batista with others. Cuban General Staff Chief, Francisco Tabernilla Dolz and a Lieutenant General discussing defense matters. Cuban soldiers on tanks. Castro addresses guerrillas. Che Guevera working with rebels in the mountains. They assemble and test rifle-launched grenades. Fire fights between revolutionaries and the Batista forces. The Cuban Army Air Force (FAEC--Fuerza Aérea Ejército de Cuba) attacks using P-47 aircraft, seen firing at revolutionaries on the ground. Rebels firing heavy machine guns, rifles, and rifle grenades. Castro's revolutionaries, under the leadership of Ernesto “Ché” Guevara, engage Federal troops at Santa Clara. They are seen taking prisoners and in the city itself. A building sign reads: "Seccion Policia Nacional Vigilante Hidalgo." An FAEC B-26 bomber is seen low overhead. Rebels fire at it with small arms from a truck moving along the street. FAEC B-26s engaged in nighttime support missions with Batista forces (commencing November 10, 1958). B-26s dropping bombs. P-47 aircraft are also seen. Bombs exploding. Civilian women and children seeking escape from the bombing. Wounded revolutionaries being treated in a hospital. Armed women revolutionaries. Rebel forces eating a meal. Che Guevara being greeted as he walks amongst civilians in the city. Revolutionaries stand atop a building waving their flag. A woman holds an injured child. A cross is erected in a cemetery. Fidel Castro with some of his followers talking to a captured Federal officer
Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries take over Cuba
People parading in streets of a city in Cuba, carrying a banner reading: "llega Fidel huyo Batista" (Batista fled Fidel arrives). They celebrate the succcess of Fidel Castro's revolution. Some demonstrators remove items from building displaying a sign reading: "Confederacion Concejales de Cuba, DPN Guas ICLAN Alcalde Oficinas." They pile items on a car parked by the building and set it on fire. They destroy gaming tables in casinoes. Uniformed police respond to the violence and gun fights ensue. Civilians are wounded (and possibly killed) in the melee. Fidel Castro is seen in the company of former President, Carlos Prío Socarrás,and Camilo Cienfuegos Gorriarán, making his way through a crowd of newsmen and reporters. Scenes of destruction from bombing by the Batista military. Crowds of Castro supporters parading with banners, including some referring to the July 26th movement. Some persons have "26" written on their foreheads. People cheer Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Revolutionaries parade a captured army tank and other items through the streets. Castro and Guevera along with others of their band, ride through the streets on an open vehicle as throngs cheer them.The people welcome Castro-style Democracy. Fidel Castro speaking over a public address system.The Monument to the Abolition of Slavery located in Matanzas, Cuba, is adorned with a flag. A sign reading "Fidel: te Saluda." In Miami, Florida, an exiled Batista supporter is attacked by a man and is restrained by local policemen. Fidel Castro and his revolutionaries pose. An armed revolutionary poses by an army tank.
Fidel Castro visits New York City. Castro revolutionary firing squads execute Batista officials
Fidel Castro visits New York City, April 15, 1959, and gives a speech to large crowd in New York's Central Park. Back in Cuba, revolutionaries show officials and members of the press, a prison cell and injuries suffered by a former prisoner. They display instruments of torture used by the Batista regime. Colonel Cornelio Rojas, Chief of Police in Santa Clara, is seen in jail cell. He is walked under guard by revolutionaries and stands against a wall before a firing squad who execute him on orders of Ernesto "Che" Guevara. Revolutionaries bringing charges against Batista officials. People testify against them. Accused Lieutenant Enrique Despaigne Noret appears before a judgment panel. He is later seen, handcuffed, stepping from a vehicle at San Juan Hill,Santiago de Cuba, January 12, 1959. He stands before a firing squad and is allowed to write something on a paper. He is then shot and falls into a ditch or grave behind him.
Anastas Mikoyan, vice-prime minister of the Soviet Union, visits Cuba soon after the Castro revolution.
Statue of José Marti, designed by Enrique Luis Varela and sculpted by Juan José Sicre, at foot of Marti memorial monument in Revolution Square, Havana, Cuba. The Cuban flag on the Ministry of Interior building, across the square. Camilo Cienfuegos addresses people and Fidel Castro smiles in Havana, Cuba. A procession by people. Che Guevara and Camilo Cienfuegos with others sitting. President Manuel Urrutia comes with others. Soviet vice-prime minister, Anastas Mikoyan, steps from Soviet plane. He meets President Urrutia. Mikoyan wearing a straw hat with "Cuba" written on it. Fidel Castro and leading revolutionary figures attend a formal reception for Mikoyan. A signboard reads 'INRA Cooperative Arroceru Jose Smith Comas Zona H-10 Cardenas'. Farmers in field with their cattle. Fidel Castro addresses the press. Cuban workmen handling lumber at a construction site. A board reads'Instituto Nacional de Ahorro y Vivienda,' and announces the construction of a planned city of 300 homes. Women parade holding rifles. The French freighter La Coubre exploding on March 4,1960, while being unloaded in Havana harbor, Cuba. Scenes of explosions and fire as people run to escape the area. Fire fighters trying to extinguish flames, and similar events are captured by the camera. Post accident scenes of Castro speaking to the populace and of mourners walking along the street in Havana. (Note: This French ship was carrying munitions from Antwerp.Approximately 100 people were killed and twice as many injured in this terrible accident.)