This Custom Fabricated Item up for Auction is Truly a One-of-a-Kind Piece. This highly collectible item features Three highly collectible items Signed by Fidel Castro. The center piece of the item is a Castro Signed Cuban Flag dated 20 October 1962. The significance of this date is that it is at the height of the Cuban Missile Crisis. Also featured is a signed 3.5 x 5 Photo of Castro as well as a Signed Presidential Invitation from 1972. 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 and The Signed Flag comes with a letter of authenticity issued by Autograph Certification Experts. The Photo and Invitation has been authenticated by Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators and comes with a Letter of Certification from Guaranteed Forensic Authenticators, along with the GFA guarantee of authenticity.

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