American Comandante
Season 28 Episode 1 | 52m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
The story of William Morgan, who went to Cuba and fought for Democracy.
When William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it had appeared; it was lost in the classified archives of the Cold War and edited out of Cuban history by Fidel Castro’s retelling of the revolution.
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American Comandante
Season 28 Episode 1 | 52m 2sVideo has Closed Captions
When William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it had appeared; it was lost in the classified archives of the Cold War and edited out of Cuban history by Fidel Castro’s retelling of the revolution.
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