CBS NEWS SPECIAL REPORT: REBELS OF THE SIERRA MAESTRA: THE STORY OF CUBA'S JUNGLE FIGHTERS (TV)

Summary

A special report on Fidel Castro and his jungle army. Taber and Hoffman, members of the CBS News Division, walked 150 miles into the jungle to visit the rebel camp. There, they talk with three American men, who have joined the rebels. Taber interviews Castro on top of Cuba's highest mountain.

Preservation of the Post–World War II American Television Documentary Collection is supported in part by a Federal Save America’s Treasures grant administered by the National Endowment for the Humanities.

Details

• NETWORK: CBS
• DATE: May 19, 1957 Sunday 6:30 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:26:25
• COLOR/B&W: B&W
• CATALOG ID: T77:0340
• GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
• SUBJECT HEADING: Cuba - Officials - Talk/Interviews; Cuba - History - 1933-1959; Guerrilla warfare
• SERIES RUN: CBS - TV, 1957
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Don Hewitt … Editor
• Leslie Midgley … Editor
• Wendell Hoffman … Camera Man
• Robert Taber … Reporter
• Fidel Castro