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Letter from Juanita Greene to the Miami Herald Copy Desk, November 13, 1959

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State Archives of Florida, Collection N2019-2

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Letter from journalist Juanita Greene to the copy desk at the Miami Herald providing updates about her research in Cuba. She recounts a conversation she had with Mr. Govantes in which he questioned why she wouldn't describe Fidel Castro's government was communist in her articles. Greene then mentions a lunch meeting she had with her friend attorney David Rosen.

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1959-11-13

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Greene, Juanita, 1924-2017

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Letters (correspondence)

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Juanita Greene joined the Miami Herald in 1956. In the months after the Cuban Revolution ended in 1959, Greene wrote a series of reports for the Herald from Cuba about Fidel Castro's government, communism and the Cuban people. She became the newspaper's first environmental writer in 1969.

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Letter from Juanita Greene to the Miami Herald Copy Desk, November 13, 1959

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Communism

Cubans

Reporters and reporting

Revolution (Cuba : 1959)

Women journalists

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Greene, Juanita, 1924-2017

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State Archives of Florida, Collection N2019-2

Date

1959-11-13

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letters (correspondence)

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eng-US

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Text

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n2019-2_b002_f01_x04

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Postwar Florida (1945-1968)

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Washington (D.C.)

Cuba

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Politics and Government

Subject - Corporate

Miami Herald Publishing Company

Subject - Person

Castro, Fidel, 1926-2016

Matos, Huber, 1918-2014

Cienfuegos, Camilo, 1932-1959

Govantes, Mr.

Díaz Lanz, Pedro Luis, 1926-2008

Rosen, David

Hoover, J. Edgar (John Edgar), 1895-1972

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Greene, Juanita, 1924-2017. Letter from Juanita Greene to the Miami Herald Copy Desk, November 13, 1959. 1959-11-13. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. <https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/346060>, accessed 15 November 2024.

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Greene, Juanita, 1924-2017. Letter from Juanita Greene to the Miami Herald Copy Desk, November 13, 1959. 1959-11-13. State Archives of Florida, Florida Memory. Accessed 15 Nov. 2024.<https://www.floridamemory.com/items/show/346060>

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