Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection, 1964 - 1980. CASTRO'S CUBA TODAY; ETC, 1963.

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Records of the Office of the Chief Signal Officer, 1860 - 1985. Motion Picture Films from the Army Library Copy Collection, 1964 - 1980. CASTRO'S CUBA TODAY; ETC, 1963.

1963

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Summary: LSD Havana harbor and shoreline. VS, military posters on walls and buildings. Children entering school. Int, classroom; teacher writing on blackboard. Night, men and women armed with rifles stand guard at stores in shopping district. LS, medical supplies and food unloaded from ship. VS, old men, women, and children are evacuated. They board the Red Cross ship Shirley Lykes. The sick are taken on litters aboard the ship. Cubans are issued rifles and machine guns. CUBAN PRISONERS RETURN TO.: Miami, Florida: 12/23/1962: Tremendous crowds at airport. Released prisoners come down ramp of plane and rush to greet their families and friends. They embrace and kiss. MCU, James B Donovan, New York lawyer who was responsible for their release, speaks at microphone and poses before cameras at airport. Refugees being helped down gangway of Red Cross ship at dock. Nurses assist mothers with small children. Group of released prisoners riding in open convertible past camera. Men are seen in church praying at altar. President John F Kennedy and Mrs Kennedy speaking at Cuban rally held in Miami stadium.

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Donovan, James B. (James Britt), 1916-1970

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James Britt Donovan (February 29, 1916 – January 19, 1970) was an American lawyer and United States Navy officer in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency), ultimately becoming general counsel of the OSS, and an international diplomatic negotiator. Donovan is widely known for negotiating the 1960–1962 exchange of captured American U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers and American student Frederic Pry...