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The Dream Was Not Integration
In late 1959 or early 1960, he goes to Cuba with Marceline. This was after it had become clear that Castro was breaking for the Soviets. He swore to his dying day that American pilots flew planes bombing Cuban civilians. The US government denied it, and so they brought him to see the bodies of two pilots who had been shot down. So he asked for permission to take a picture of the corpses, which he did. And when he says this in many recordings with his people that he was told by Cubans that this was the case and he didn't believe them. I've never quite known what to make of this, because officially the US was not running military operations in Cuba