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[News Script: Cubans]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about 4 Cuban refugees in Fort Worth; Brothers Ignacio and Vicente Perez, Louis Canizares and Jose Gonzales were on their way to California to find jobs when they broke down in Fort Worth and liked it so much they decided to stay. The youths left Cuba to escape serving in Castro's militia, two of them escaping in a rented rowboat with 3 others and rowing and drifting the 100 miles to Miami.
Date: December 21, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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[News Script: Cuban]

Description: Script from the WBAP-TV/NBC station in Fort Worth, Texas, covering a news story about the anti-Communist revolutionaries of Cuba; the interview with Fernando Robiana, a Cuban exile who lives with his family in Dallas, tells of being ready go to to a training camp to prepare to fight for a possible invasion of Cuba to defeat the Castro regime, and what exiles such as he lost. An invasion could have the support of the Organization of American States, and he awaits word.
Date: December 23, 1961
Creator: WBAP-TV (Television station : Fort Worth, Tex.)
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