Cubans Demand More Executions 1959

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Titles read: "HAVANA - CUBANS DEMAND MORE EXECUTIONS".

Several shots of massed crowds, some with flags and banners, in front of the Presidential palace in Havana, Cuba. Shots of Cuban troops in the seated area. One of the banners reads "Cuban Mothers Want The Execution of Murderers that Brought...

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Cataloguer:
Sarah
Stock:
Black & White
Sound:
Sound
Media URN:
58731
Sort Number:
59/009
Time in/Out:
01:24:03:00 / 01:25:15:00
Canister:
59/9
Film ID:
1567.13
Issue Date:
29/01/1959

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