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Carlos Lechuga

A declassified memo documenting plans for Castro to meet secretly with a US envoy. It's dated the very day of JFK's assassination.

How Kennedy’s assassination ended hopes for a reconciliation with Castro

Global Politics

The hostility between John F. Kennedy and Fidel Castro’s Cuba is legendary. But newly-released documents show that Kennedy had plans to reconcile with Cuba — plans scuttled when he was assassinated. PRI’s The World takes this look back at “The World that Was.”

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