Episode 137 End For Batista As Cuba Falls on New Year's Eve

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

🗓️ 11 December 2022

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Episode 137 cover's a few key final events of Batista's regime and his ouster and we also go out with the Mob on New Year's eve and stay with Meyer Lansky in those wee morning hours of New Year's day....as the mob scrambled in the midst of the fresh news regarding the toppled regime. Join us in this continuing miniseries on Cuban history as we continue to set the stage and explore the forces that were shaping the world in that era of the twentie...

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0:00.0	Cocco Seco
0:02.0	Coco Seco
0:04.0	Cocoa
0:05.0	Cocoa I'm going to I'm going to Welcome to JFK in The Enduring Secret.
0:50.5	I'm your host, Jeff Crudell.
1:17.5	Thank you. I'm your host, Jeff Crudell. Hello, everyone. Hello everyone and welcome back to the podcast.
1:21.7	Today's episode is episode 137.
1:25.5	You know, things in life are highly interconnected.
1:31.1	We hardly notice that until it becomes, well, problematic.
1:39.3	In a nutshell, that's exactly what happened in Cuba. A whole host of actions and reactions, some unrelated to begin with, eventually becoming part of a web of events that would ultimately connect in various
1:46.3	ways to the story of the JFK assassination. President Eisenhower took office in 1952, the same year
1:55.1	that Batista, just a few months later, took over Cuba in a brutal coup. Let's face it, things had been brewing in
2:03.9	Cuba and totally tumultuous in some ways for a long time, long before then. It was a society that
2:12.1	throughout the 20th century had forged ahead and dropped back in a series of successive social convulsions,
2:20.7	always in a state of turbulence. Some of it was simply attributed to the gestation of a new
2:26.7	democratic approach to government, but it was yet to be anything close to a republic.
2:32.9	A banana republic? Yes, but not a true republic. A banana republic?
2:36.6	Yes, but not a true republic.
2:42.0	The economics of the island were still dominated by U.S. business forces and having a strong man like Batista to calm things down wasn't all bad for the U.S.
2:46.9	In fact, at that moment, it looked pretty good.
2:51.3	And after all, he was the architect, or at least in some ironic twist,
2:56.1	sort of a shepherd to some extent for the Cuban people when it came to passing the 1940
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