Robert N. Pierce Collection 1959

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Robert N. Pierce Collection 1959

http://www.library.ufl.edu/spec/manuscript/guides/pierce.htm

Newspaper clippings, contents of an official press packet, and photographs from reporter Robert N. Pierce's trip to Cuba shortly after Fidel Castro came to power in 1959.

0.2 Linear feet; 1 box

eng,

Special and Area Studies Collections, George A. Smathers Libraries, University of Florida

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SNAC Resource ID: 6636992

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Pierce, Robert N. (Robert Nash), 1931-

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Robert N. Pierce (1931-) worked as a reporter, editor, and educator throughout the South. Employed variously by the Miami Herald, Shreveport Journal, St. Petersburg Evening Independent, San Angelo Standard-Times, and Sarasota News, he went on to become a professor of journalism at the University of Minnesota and Louisiana State University. In 1970 he became a faculty member of the College of Journalism and Communications at the University of Florida. From the description of Robert N....

Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016

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Fidel Castro (b. August 13, 1926, Birán, Cuba–d. November 25, 2016, Havana, Cuba) was a Cuban communist revolutionary and politician who governed the Republic of Cuba as Prime Minister from 1959 to 1976 and then as President from 1976 to 2008. Under his administration, Cuba became a one-party communist state, while industry and business were nationalized and state socialist reforms were implemented throughout society. The son of a wealthy Spanish farmer, Castro adopted leftist anti-imper...