26-12-2015, 05:02 AM
Magda Hassan Wrote:Thanks Tracey. The FBI are also referring to a speech by Castro on November 27th. While Marty's speech references November 23. I expect Fidel did have quite a bit to say at the time so most likely several speeches and he does talk through out the years on Kennedy and RFK and EMK too. But still no original. It must be around. But where?
Edit: Sorry Tracey. Just saw your second post about the 27th speech. Still hunting for original.
Castro apparently made many public statements in the days after the assassination. I can't think of any public figure who made as many speeches as he did. He probably would have needed a huge staff to record and transcribe all of them.
Late on the evening of 11/23 the AP in Miami reported on Castro's speech:
[URL="http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/White%20Assassination%20Clippings%20Folders/Reaction/Item%2003.pdf"]http://jfk.hood.edu/Collection/White%20Materials/White%20Assassination%20Clippings%20Folders/Reaction/Item%2003.pdf
[/URL] 1974-75 Castro was interviewed by Frank Mankiewicz and Kirby Jones for their book, With Fidel:
He expressed "great displeasure" over JFK's death; "...we would have preferred that he continue in the Presidency of the United States. Because if there was a President of the United States who could have had the courage to change policy...that was Kennedy." "...when he became President, this whole plan of training troops and of invading Cuba had already been organized. And he had great doubts...It must not be forgotten, as I have mentioned, that it was Nixon who had proposed that the Marines and the Armed Forces to be used." "For a while, the CIA was attempting assassination of some of our revolutionary leaders. Some say the decision was on Kennedy's desk several times. We do not know. It's as much a mystery as Kennedy's own assassination. It would be a good thing if the truth were known. I have heard that there are certain documents that will not be published for 100 years and I ask myself why. What secret surrounds the Kennedy assassination that these papers cannot be published? I ask myself why the man who commits such an act tries to come here? As you know, he applied for - and was denied - a permit to travel to Cuba. And one must take into account the fact that a few days after killing Kennedy, he himself was killed. How can the conclusion be avoided that there are others behind all this? Who knows what goals they were seeking by killing Kennedy? Sometimes we ask ourselves if someone did not wish to involve Cuba in this, because I am under the impression that Kennedy's assassination was a conspiracy organized in the United States by reactionaries with possible connections to the CIA. This is my opinion, and my opinion is that the man who carried it out was an agent-provocateur. The other mystery is that this other man, Ruby, who had no moral ideals, no political ideals, no political passions, becomes so enraged by Kennedy's assassination that he kills the assassin right in front of the police. It was incredible, inconceivable. That does not happen even in the most mediocre of movies."