AP Historical Hard Drive 1996

General view of Rome's Olympic diving and swimming pools, with a big electronic scoreboard just completed (in left background, under the windows of a...

A representation of Fidel Castro looks down on the famous Prado in Havana. The sign reads: Fidel, giant guide of America, April 4, 1960. (AP Phot...

General Douglas MacArthur, at Hall of Fame Dinner in New York City, February 3, 1960.(AP PHOTO)

Members of the

Fidel Castro warned those who conspire against him and his regime that the revolutionary government will seize their money, homes, and their land. He...

Country and Western singer Marty Robins, is shown singing and playing his guitar in this December 1959 photo. (AP Photo)

Lev Vlasenko, second from left, a renowned Russian pianist and long-time professor at the prestigious Moscow Conservatory, is shown in New York City w...

W. Steinkraus of the United States, with his mount, First Boy, after he had won the Nizefela Stakes Jumping Contest in the Royal International Horse S...

Here is the first detachment of an expected half million Cuban campesinos, farmers and rural people scheduled to assemble here for the July 26 annive...

Fidel Castro adds his name to the million signatures being gathered by the 26th of July movement as evidence of support for the agrarian reform progra...

Jockey Eddie Arcaro signals to reporters from a stretcher at New York's Physicians Hospital on June 13, 1959, that he feels alright following his spil...

Raul Castro, Cuba's fire-brand chief of all armed forces shows strain of two aerial adventures, May 27, 1959, as he walks away from a rescue plane whi...

American novelist Ernest Hemingway, left, chats with actors Alec Guinness, center, and Noel Coward in Sloppy Joe's Bar in Havana, Cuba, May 12, 1959,...

Eleanor Roosevelt speaks at an exhibit of photographs commemorating the death of her husband, Franklin D. Roosevelt April 30,1959 at the Bernard M. Ba...

Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro gestures with his hand while speaking to an estimated crowd of 10,000 persons at Harvard University, Cambridge, Mass...

Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro, visiting the U.S., takes a good sized bite of hot dog during a trip to New York's Bronx Zoo April 24, 1959. Hot do...

U.S. Vice President Richard Nixon and Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro leave Nixon's office April 19, 1959, after a two hour and 20 minute chat behin...

32-year-old Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro gestures, April 17, 1959, before the American Society of Newspaper Editors in Washington, DC. (AP Photo)

Fidel Castro takes a draw at his long cigar, a special brand he brought along, as he talks with newsmen outside the Cuban Embassy in Washington, April...

Paul Robeson and actress Mary Ure as shown in their final rehearsal for

This is an April 1959 photo of actors backstage at the Academy Awards ceremony. From left: Susan Hayward, David Niven, Ingrid Bergman, and Maurice C...

Major Ernesto

Cuban Prime Minister Fidel Castro (seated above numbers 732) rides in public bus from presidential Palace to the University of Havana stadium for the...

Willis Conover, an expert on jazz, broadcasts

Sen. John F. Kennedy, D-Mass., is shown in his office in Washington D.C. in this file photo dated Feb. 27, 1959. (AP Photo/files)

Mississippi State University coach Babe McCarthy sounds off from bench during game against Tulane Univesity in New Orleans Feb. 24, 1959. (AP Photo)

Bailey Howell of Mississippi State University lobs through the shot that on Feb. 23, 1959 broke Bob Petit's Southeastern Conference three-year scoring...

Johnny Beauchamp (73), driving a 1959 Thunderbird and Lee Petty, (42), driving an Oldsmobile were neck and neck on the last lap of the 500-mile late s...

Joe Weatherly drives his Chevrolet through one of the 31 degree banked turns at the Daytona International Speedway during the 100-mile stock car race...

Rebel leader Fidel Castro wipes his eye as he walks in the funeral procession February 9, 1959, for 19 men that were killed when he led them across th...

Students among crowd demonstrating in front of the presidential palace January 16, 1959, carry signs backing the rebel provisional government. Some of...

A Jan.14, 1959 photo of Gino Marchetti, defensive end for Baltimore Colts. (AP Photo)

Soldiers of Rebel Chief Fidel Castro take positions on road bank as the revolutionary leader makes a roadside appearance a few miles from there Januar...

Fidel Castro talks with Ed Sullivan, TV variety show host and N.Y. Daily News columnist, January 6, 1959 in Matanzas, Cuba. (AP Photo/Valentine)

Troops of rebel leader Fidel Castro who have been fighting in the mountains and wilds for the past many months wear broad smiles as they parade throug...

This is a familiar scene throughout Havana today with rebel forces manning road blocks and challenging all persons on the street. Troops of Rebel Lea...

These young rebels are shown training a variety of weapons out windows of one of numerous cars that ranged Havana's streets, January 2, 1959, in the u...

Mercury astronaut, Virgil Grissom poses in civilian clothes, with a model of a U.S. spacecraft, in 1959. (AP Photo)

British actress Anne Heywood is shown in this 1959 photo. (AP Photo)

Ernesto

These residents of Ybor City, Tampa's heavily Cuban-American area, gathered on steps of the Cuban club here this afternoon after learning Cuba's Presi...

South African police beat African women with clubs in Durban in 1959 when the women raided and set fire to a beer hall in protest against police actio...

Raul Castro, brother of Cuban President Fidel Castro, shown in January 1959. (AP Photo)

World motor racing champion Mike Hawthorn, who won his World Title only seven weeks ago, is shown at his garage in Farnham, Surrey where he announced...

Kim Novak sits on the floor in front of the fireplace in the den of her Bel Air home November 14, 1958, with a green and lavender jade chess set. (AP...

Film actress Kim Novak is shown November 14, 1958 at home in her newly furnished home in Bel Air, California. (AP Photo)

Kim Novak sits in front of a painting of herself which hangs in the living room of her Bel Air home November 12, 1958. The painting was done especial...

Screen star Kim Novak lights the huge rock fireplace in the living room of her home in Bel Air, California, November 12, 1958. (AP Photo)

Governor-elect Edmund G.

American singer and actor Frank Sinatra is presented to Queen Elizabeth II in the foyer of the Odeon Theatre, Leicester Square, London, October 27, 19...