Fair_Play_for_Cuba_Committee

Fair Play for Cuba Committee

Fair Play for Cuba Committee

Early 1960s U.S./Canadian grassroots network supporting Cuban Revolution

The Fair Play for Cuba Committee (FPCC) was an activist group set up in New York City by Robert Taber in April 1960.[1][2][3]

Lee Harvey Oswald and others handing out "Fair Play for Cuba" leaflets in New Orleans, August 16, 1963

History

The FPCC's purpose was to provide grassroots support for the Cuban Revolution against attacks by the United States government, once Fidel Castro began openly admitting his commitment to Marxism and began the expropriation and nationalization of Cuban assets belonging to U.S. corporations. The FPCC opposed the Bay of Pigs invasion of 1961, the imposition of the United States embargo against Cuba, and was sympathetic to the Cuban view during the Cuban Missile Crisis of 1962. Its members were placed under surveillance by the FBI.[4]

Subsidiary Fair Play for Cuba groups were set up throughout the United States and Canada.[5][6]

By December 1963, the Fair Play for Cuba Committee was defunct, with FBI investigations concluding in 1964.[7]

Members and sponsors

Archives

References

  1. [1]
    Gott, Richard, Cuba: a new History, Yale University Press, 2004, 177–178
  2. [2]
    Cassels, Louis (June 17, 1961). "Fair Play for Cuba Committee Activated". Lodi News-Sentinel. Lodi, California. UPI. p. 11. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  3. [3]
    Edson, Peter (October 21, 1962). "Edson in Washington; Defectors to Castro". The Park City Daily News. Bowling Green, Kentucky. NEA. p. 21. Retrieved May 29, 2013.
  4. [4]
    Cold War Stories: William Worthy, the Right to Travel, and Afro-American Reporting on the Cuban Revolution (PDF), archived from the original (PDF) on 2020-07-09, retrieved 2020-08-13
  5. [5]
    Gosse, Van, Where the Boys Are: Cuba, Cold War America, and the Making of the New Left, London: Verso, 1993.
  6. [6]
    "Pro-Castro Organization Now Defunct". Sarasota Herald-Tribune. Vol. 39, no. 87. Sarasota, Florida: Lindsay Newspapers, Inc. UPI. December 29, 1963. p. 20. Retrieved May 18, 2017.
  7. [7]
    https://fau.digital.flvc.org/islandora/object/fau%3A9815 Cold War comes to Ybor City: Tampa Bay's chapter of the Fair Play for Cuba Committee
  8. [8]
    104-10001-10015 2022 RELEASE UNDER THE PRESIDENT JOHN F. KENNEDY ASSASSINATION RECORDS ACT OF 1992. UNCLASSIFIED. FRNAL. BONLY? CON. INITIAL SECRET. archives.gov
  9. [9]
    "FBI - HSCA Subject Files: Richard Thomas Gibson". maryferrell.org. Retrieved 7 February 2023.
  10. [10]
    "Fair Play for Cuba Committee". 1961.
  11. [11]
    https://www.archives.gov/files/research/jfk/releases/2018/104-10308-10163.pdf [bare URL PDF]
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