Episode 133 Fidel Castro and the Revolution Part 2

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

🗓️ 28 November 2022

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Episode 133 is the second fully dedicated episode covering Fidel Castro and the Cuban Revolution. In this episode, we give an overview of the revolutionary years and chronicle the major events of the Cuban Revolution that took place during the period between the coup by Batista in March 1952 through the fall of the Batista government, marked by his fleeing of the country on New Year's day 1959. The aftermath and repercussions of Batista's coup would give ...

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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.
1:04.6	Thank you. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell. Hello, everyone, and welcome back to the podcast.
1:08.5	Today's episode is episode 133. I know that these episodes on Cuba have been a
1:14.9	wander, and they remain a wander. But stay with me because it's all going to tie together
1:20.6	by the end of the wander. And some of that tying together, well, we will do that today.
1:27.2	Today will help with that.
1:28.9	What I mean is that I feel compelled to start this episode by getting out of some of the
1:34.8	details for just a moment and dedicating this episode to giving an overview of the events
1:41.1	that take us from the coup by Batista in 1952 to the fall of Batista and his government
1:47.5	on New Year's Day in 1959.
1:50.9	These were two book-end events and book-in dates that essentially define the period that is the Cuban Revolution,
1:58.4	and they define the point at which Castro finally comes to power.
2:03.0	It really is a miraculous story, and when you hear it, you might have to scratch your head
2:08.4	in order to try and understand how such a small group of radicals could eventually mushroom
2:14.3	into enough men, just enough, and enough force, just enough, to seize
2:20.3	enough control of an entrenched government that had at its head a military man, cunning enough
2:26.9	in his own right. Those rebels found just enough power to successfully seize this government,
2:33.4	through their own coup, and a coup which
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