1952: Fulgencio Batista seizes power in Cuba. Batista and his men enter Camp Columbia and win over the garrison. The soldiers pick up arms. The convoy leaves for the Presidential Palace in Havana. A pilot climbs into the cockpit of an airplane. Rafael Salas Canizares, the new Chief of Police, directs his men in his office. He goes into a building and talks to his radio operator. Obsolete ships of the Cuban Navy in the bay. Officers converse before a map on the wall. Cars and tanks on their way to the Presidential Palace. President Carlos Prio Socarras takes sanctuary in the Mexican Embassy. The Republic of Cuba flag, and the Democratic constitution suspended. Ousted President Carlos Prio Socarras leaves for Mexico with his family. The Presidential Palace in Havana. Batista during a meeting with his Cabinet. University of Havana students carry out a mock funeral of the Cuban constitution. Police officers and officials inside the Fifth National Police Station. Seeds of revolution against Batista are sown: Leader of the student movement, Jose Antonio Echeverria, encourages his fellow students to act. A pro-Batista faction smears the statue of a student hero with red paint. Students gather and demonstrate on the streets. The police try to control the demonstration. Explosions during the demonstrations. A wounded student leader protesting against Batista is taken to a hospital, where he dies. Students carry his casket down the steps of a building. Student demonstrators hang Batista in effigy. Police arrests students in the University campus. The students are defended by a former Senator in court. Newspaper headlines about the various shootings. A man killed during a police raid. Rafael Salas Canizares is made Brigadier. Proceedings underway in the Department of Investigation. The Minister of Interior meets with radio executives and publishers and orders censorship. People around a car with the words 'Censored' and 'Censorship' painted on it.
January 1, 1959: People on the roof with flags. Cuban people come out onto the streets to celebrate the fall of President Fulgencio Batista. People in cars cheer and celebrate and on balconies they wave. They break and burn the belongings of the Batista government, raiding government buildings and burning government material. They attack and destroy buildings and casinos run by Batista loyalists. View of smashed and wrecked casino equipment. Unrest among a crowd. A man smashes a telephone. A stampede on the streets. Anarchy takes over with no government in place. People fight in the streets. A woman is lifted and restrained by two men. Men from mobs and gangs fire weapons from behind pillars. Medics and civilians help the wounded. Castro names Manuel Urrutia Lleo as the President of the Provisional Government of Cuba. Urrutia at a press conference. Photographers and cameramen capture the event on film. A reporter questions him. Wrecked building, aircraft and bridges. People celebrate on the streets. The number '26' for the 26th of July Movement painted on people's foreheads, helmets and clothes. The rebels enter Havana. Che Guevara is seen. A convoy of captured tanks and trucks. Fidel Castro arrives on 8th January 1959. The civilians hail and welcome him and his men. Fidel Castro waves out to the people from an open jeep. Photographers and cameramen record the event. Fidel Castro promises democracy and elections to the people of Cuba. People applaud. Castro write on a paper on the hood of a car. Castro spends the nights at Camp Columbia. Castro with his bearded anti-communist rebel commander Camilo Cienfuegos at the podium. Castro drinks during the celebrations. He addresses a large crowd. Rebels on trucks and tanks pass through the crowd as they cheer and welcome them. The rebels wave to the enormous crowd.
King Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud of Saudi Arabia during a state visit in Washington DC, United States. View of Pentagon River Entrance, from Columbia Island, across the water. Honor guard at Pentagon. King Saud arrives at the Pentagon. United States Secretary of Defense Charles Erwin Wilson and Admiral Arthur W. Radford greet the king. View of the White House. King Saud and U.S. President Dwight D. Eisenhower discuss problems of mutual concern and defense against aggression. Cars parked outside the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (1010 Butternut St NW, Washington, DC 20012, United States). King Saud with his son, Prince Mashhoor Ibn Saud (Mashhoor bin Saud bin Abdulaziz Al Saud) in the hospital. The king hosts a party in honor of President Eisenhower. King Saud talks to U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon. Earl Warren, Chief Justice of the US, shakes hands with the King. Under Secretary of State, Lloyd Henderson, meets the King. King Saud talks to President Eisenhower. Sailors at the United States Naval Academy (121 Blake Rd, Annapolis, MD 21402, United States) salute the Arab ruler by firing guns. His Majesty inspects a U.S. Marine Corps guard of honor. The King is escorted by the Superintendent of the Naval Academy, Rear Admiral William R. Smedberg, III, who presents him a plaque, as memento of his visit. The King watches a college basketball game between the US Navy Academy team and Duke University. College athletes compete in basketball game. Spectators seated in an indoor stadium. The Arab ruler leaves the academy after the match. He gets in a car. He visits the hospital to meet his son. Little Prince Mashhoor salutes the people of America. King Saud waves at the people. The Arab King and the Prince leave the hospital and return to Blair House where visitors continue to arrive, including, His Excellency, Charles Malik of Lebanon; Greek Ambassador George V. Melas; and Ambassador Nazrollah Entezam of Iran. His Royal Highness, Crown Prince Abd al-Ilah of Iraq, seen seated with King Saud. Exterior of Saudi Arabian Embassy. A children's party inside the Embassy attended by children from the Washington diplomatic corps and "hosted" by Prince Mashhoor Ibn Saud who receives a bicycle. King Saud and President Eisenhower at the White House. The King departs Washington airport on the Columbine II, Presidential C-121 aircraft.
Indian Prime Minister Jawaharlal Nehru discusses issues with U.S. President John F Kennedy at White House, Washington DC. Later in the evening Nehru and his daughter Indira Gandhi arrive at the White House for a state dinner and are greeted and seen posing with first lady Jacqueline Kennedy and President John F. Kennedy. Indian Foreign Secretary M J Desai and U.S. Secretary of State Dean Rusk present for the talks ranging free and independent states to outlaw of nuclear testing. Prime Minister's daughter Ms. Indira Gandhi visits District of Columbia Children's Hospital. Exterior of Children's Hospital in Washington DC. Inside, they visit a young girl named Jane Franzella, who has polio, and is is receiving a treatment in a whirlpool tank. Ms. Indira Gandhi receives and admires a painting or drawing created for her by the girl, Jane. Ms. Gandhi and Mrs Rusk observe children in a room receiving therapy to improve the muscular coordination of disabled children. Boys and girls work with nurses and therapists in the room. Scene changes to exterior view of the newly decorated Indian Embassy in Washington DC. Inside, Indian Ambassador to America, B K Nehru, and his wife, greet guests as they arrive for a dinner in honor of Prime Minister Nehru and his daughter. Friends and diplomats from the Washington DC community arrive and greet Prime Minister Nehru.
President John F Kennedy during a television interview at President's office in White House, Washington DC. William H Lawrence, American Broadcasting Company, George E. Herman, Columbia Broadcasting System, and Sander Vanocur, National Broadcasting Company are three correspondents taking the interview. Lawrence asks President Kennedy questions about his experience in the office and his expectations in future. President Kennedy answers.
Women pose in living posters to aid Red Cross campaign in Washington DC during World War I. A board reads "The spirit of Red Cross". A woman poses. A child with the Christmas Red Cross. A woman wears the Red Cross nurse dress. Two women pose with a big Red Cross sign. A board reads "Where Columbia Leads".