Here is reporter Lisa Howard.

Good evening ladies and gentlemen.

We thought you might want to hear some of the events surrounding my interview with Fidel Castro.

In spring of 1963, for the first time in over three years,

millions of Americans turned on their TV sets to see Fidel Castro interviewed on a major network.

Fidel Castro made no request to see my questions prior to the interview.

The voice of the Cuban interpreter, Dr. René Villejo, was inaudible at times,

so we've replaced him with an American interpreter.

But Fidel Castro's answers have not been altered or edited in any manner.

The Cuban leader spoke to Lisa Howard of ABC News,

and less than six months out from the crisis over missiles in Cuba in 1962.

Fidel Castro sounded optimistic.

In the United States, they use certain slogans, certain clichés, certain ideas

that they accept almost as though they were axioms or truisms.

But I believe that what is thought in the United States and the way things are analyzed there

will finally lead them to understand exactly how and why Cuba is acting as she is.

We are merely and completely exercising our rights to self-determination.

Episode 9 Cuba Libra

Last episode, we talked about the climax of the October crisis.

We talked about the diplomatic back channel that were key to winding down tensions

between the US and the Soviet Union.

Of course, there were the times we came close to Armageddon.

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