Cuba in Crisis: Ike Says "No Comment" To Castro's Attack.
Cuba in Crisis: Ike Says "No Comment" To Castro's Attack.
Cuba in Crisis: Ike Says "No Comment" To Castro's Attack. A quarter of a million Castro supporters mass to hear the Cuban revolutionary leader denounce the United States in a three hour speech for letting planes flown by his opposition 'bomb' Havana. Huge crowd in streets. Cuban president Osvaldo Dorticos (?) speaks into microphones, then it's Castro's turn (gesturing in his typical style). Crowds carrying lots of banners. At his White House press conference, President Dwight D. Eisenhower declines to comment on Fidel Castro's motives. Journalists rise as Ike enters. Photographers aim their big lenses. Reporters take notes in reporter notebooks. Reporter asks question (hard to hear) and many people laugh. Nat sound of Ike using many words to say "no comment." -- but adds that on the basis of history you would think Cuba would be friend to U.S.