Fidel Castro Signed Card depicting Castro on TV in 1959. Before he was criticized by U.S. politicians and mainstream mass media, Castro was celebrated as a hero for having toppled the authoritarian regime of Fulgencio Batista. In the immediate afterglow of the triumphant Cuban Revolution, Ed Sullivan, host of American television’s most popular, “really big" variety show, flew to Cuba to tape an interview with Castro. In Matanzas at 2:00 AM on January 11, 1959, surrounded by about 100 armed men, Sullivan talked with Castro, whom he likened to George Washington. He called Castro a “fine young man,” employing the same adjectives he had used to describe Elvis Presley and would use to refer to the Beatles. Later that day, in Havana, Castro taped an appearance for the TV news program Face the Nation. He spoke in halting but assured English, as he would when he appeared as a guest on The Tonight Show hosted by Jack Paar, who traveled to Havana to interview “El Comandante". The reporters who questioned him on Meet the Press (April 19, 1959) called him Dr. Castro, adopting the Cuban conventional honorific for a lawyer (Doctor of Jurisprudence). On that occasion, Castro, who had yet to declare himself a Marxist, said that he thought the American people were “nice.” This item has been professionally custom matted and framed. The Photo has been authenticated by Autograph Certification Experts and comes with a Letter of Certification.

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