Bonus Episode 135 Attack on the Moncada Barracks

JFK The Enduring Secret

Jeff Crudele

Ruby, Dallas, Murder, Society & Culture, Coup D'etat, History, Government, President, Documentary, Kennedy, Jfk, Johnson, Oswald, Fbi, Mafia, Cia, Assassination

4.6 • 659 Ratings

🗓️ 6 December 2022

⏱️ 68 minutes

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Episode 135 is another Bonus Episode. We cover the infamous story of the failed Attack on the Moncada Barracks. This was the first armed attack led by Fidel Castro against the Batista government after the1952 coup by Batista. The attack failed miserably with 25 people killed in the attack itself and an additional 54 of the revolutionaries summarily rounded up and murdered shortly afterward. Fidel Castro escaped into the mountains but was subseq...

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0:00.0	Cocco Seco
0:02.0	Coco Seco
0:04.0	Cocoa
0:05.0	Cocoa The Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:50.5	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
1:04.7	Thank you. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
1:08.8	Today's episode, 135, is a bonus episode. That's right, another bonus
1:14.8	episode, and it covers the Montcada Barracks attack, as we outlined in an earlier discussion.
1:21.6	It's an interesting story with further insight into Fidel in his Cuban revolution, and we're
1:27.0	going to tell it mostly in
1:28.5	Fidel's words. But as I explained in the last episode, this is a bonus episode and thus not
1:34.4	critical to direct details of the JFK assassination. And it's a long one today. So you won't hurt my
1:41.8	feelings if you skip it. But I hope you won't.
1:45.3	After listening to this episode, you might ask if Fidel Castro had nine lives like a cat,
1:51.0	and whether or not he used one of them up in this raid.
1:55.1	I think he might have used two up, one during the raid and another during the point that he was captured in the mountains
2:01.6	afterward. Although his capture is another story, and it's not one we'll tell here. Fidel in all
2:09.4	probabilities should have been finished right then, but he wasn't. And so here is the Don
2:15.9	Keote-like story of Castro and the Moncotta Barracks attack.
2:20.8	Today, we will again borrow from Fidel's oral autobiography and tell the story, mostly in Fidel's own words, with some fine-tuning to improve the understanding of it.
2:32.6	And again, this is a story, but you have to keep in mind that
2:36.6	Fidel is telling the story. The Moncada Barracks attack was an abject failure, but it was this
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