American Commandante: The Strange Story of William Morgan

(Photo courtesy of American Experience.)
(Photo courtesy of American Experience.)

AMERICAN COMMANDANTE explores the intriguing story of William Morgan who was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961.  His story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it had appeared.

It was lost in the classified archives of the Cold War and it was edited out of Cuban history by Fidel Castro’s retelling of the revolution as an epic tale of a handful of men fighting under his direct command at the exclusion of all others.

  • Tuesday, November 17. 8:00 p.m.

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