Posted on 10/14/2021 7:22:19 AM PDT by CheshireTheCat
On this date in 1960, American adventurer Anthony “Tony” Zarba was shot after his capture in an ill-fated raid on Fidel Castro’s Cuba.
The Somerville, Mass. native had been shaken like many U.S. citizens by the recent Cuban Revolution; antagonism toward Castro featured prominently in the tight Kennedy-Nixon presidential campaign that was nearing its climax during the events of this post, the backdrop for the world’s coming brush with nuclear apocalypse. Confrontation of some kind seemed a foregone conclusion, and in a tradition as old as filibustering, a private clique formed in the U.S. with the intention of hastening the day.
“Today I leave for the Cuban hills. I am going to fight against communism that has come so close to our American shores,” Zarba wrote a friend before launching in a PT boat from Miami with three other Americans, 22 Cuban exiles, and a stockpile of black market weapons that September of 1960....
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But this Zarba guy seems, to me at least, to deserve some recognition.
I was born in '48, so I was cognizant in 1960 and becoming aware.
I never heard of this until just now
Ironically, he suffered a fate similar to Ché.
I wonder if Ernest Hemingway watched him get shot.
He liked to see people murdered.
https://www.guernicamag.com/george-plimpton-and-papa-in-cuba/
Google: Ernest Hemingway watched executions
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