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Glorious Victory

This is a painting that depicts the 1954 Guatemalan Coup. This was painted in the same year as the coup reflecting a leftist perspective of the coup…

IRBM Launch Site No. 1 / Guanajay, Cuba

Aerial reconnaissance photograph showing an intermediate-range ballistic missile (IRBM) launch site in Guanajay, Cuba, as it appeared on October 23,…

Jacobo Arbenz Guzman, half-length portrait, standing right, addressing crowd of his supporters

President Jacobo Arbenz giving a speech

This folder contains material collected by the office of President John F. Kennedy's secretary, Evelyn Lincoln, concerning Cuba. Materials include a…

João Goulart, Pres. of Brazil in ticker parade

João Goulart standing in back of car, during ticker tape parade, New York City.

Audio recording of President John F. Kennedy’s radio and television address to the nation regarding the former Soviet Union’s military presence in…

When President Kennedy was briefed early on in the Cuban Missile Crisis, he used this map to make annotations of the locations of some of the missile…

Land redistribution

Cartoon shows Brazilian president João Goulart under a rock slide which has just come down a mountain side. Overthrown by a military uprising after…

Map of Western Hemisphere showing ranges of 1100 and 2200 nautical miles

Map of North and South America showing potential ranges of Soviet medium-range (MRBM) and intermediate-range ballistic missiles (IRBM) from Cuba.