History in Pictures- Cuban leader Fidel Castro began a U.S. goodwill tour on 15 April 1959.

 

 

Just 4 months after his overthrow of Fulgencio Batista, Cuban dictator Fidel Castro has arrived in the United States, the invited guest of the American Society of Newspaper Editors.* *Before departing for Cuba, Castro met with Vice-President Nixon who commented later that the Cuban premier was “either incredibly naive about communism or under communist discipline…”

Fidel Castro laying a wreath at the Lincoln Memorial in Washington, 1959.