"So much of our lives were spent on expense accounts, so we could stay in great hotels and eat in great restaurants, but we couldn't pay the electric bill." George's images from that January rally-more than 100 of them-are included in a collection of contact sheets that he sold to Yale University in 1969 along with the rest of his Cuba oeuvre, more than 5,000 images. "And he took a lot of pictures," Jean St. But two years in Cuba had given him access that more accomplished photographers couldn't match. "I never thought my husband was a great photographer," she says matter-of-factly. George died in 2001, at age 77 his widow, Jean, 80, is a film researcher who lives in Dobbs Ferry, New York. He covered Cuba's revolution because he believed it was a nationalist-not a communist-uprising. In 1952 he immigrated to the United States and became a freelance journalist. Also an anti-communist, he went to Austria when the Soviets occupied Hungary after the war. Born in Hungary as Andras Szentgyorgyi, he had spent World War II helping opponents of the Nazis escape Budapest. George, a writer and photographer who had chronicled the progress of Castro's revolution since 1957.
REST IN POWER FIDEL BLACK LIVES MATTER SERIES
The event unfolds in a series of photographs taken by Andrew St. Later, she says, Castro's calling for shows of hands at such rallies "became officially a substitute for electoral voting." "It's during this rally that Fidel for the first time turns to the crowd and says, ‘If you agree with what we're doing, raise your hand,' " says Lillian Guerra, an assistant professor of Caribbean history at Yale University. Castro's supporting cast would change over the years-Cienfuegos would die in an airplane crash nine months later and Guevara would be killed fomenting revolution in Bolivia in 1967-but Fidel would return to the plaza repeatedly for major speeches until illness forced him to withdraw from public life in 2006 and from the Cuban presidency this past February.
With him were two of his most trusted lieutenants: Camilo Cienfuegos, unmistakable in a cowboy hat, and Ernesto (Che) Guevara in his trademark black beret. Criticized in the international press for threatening summary justice and execution for many members of the government of ousted dictator Fulgencio Batista, Castro called on the Cuban people to show their support at a rally in front of Havana's presidential palace.Ĭastro, 32, wore a starched fatigue cap as he faced the crowd. In Mid-January 1959, Fidel Castro and his comrades in revolution had been in power less than a month.
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