Waiting for their Prisoners

Waiting for their Prisoners

Photograph

Bob Henriques

Maker
American, 1930–2011

Waiting for their Prisoners

1962
Gelatin silver print
Image: 6 7/16 × 9 7/16 in. (16.4 × 23.9 cm)
Paper: 8 1/16 × 10 in. (20.4 × 25.4 cm)
Gift of Time-Life Books
1968.0184.0588
Inscriptions Typed in black ink on applied label on verso, C: 10/62 26) WAITING FOR THEIR PRISONERS: In the New York offices of the \ Cuban Families Committee for Liberation of the Prisoners of War, two Cuban \ women wait anxiously for word of their men, hoping that they will be \ released from Cuban prisons through the ransom negotiations currently \ being conducted by New York attorney (and U.S. Senate candidate) \ James Donovan and Fidel Castro. The husband of Mrs. Ana Maria Sanchez \ (left) is held on the Isle of Pines, with a price of $100,000 on his head. \ The brother of Mrs. Robert W. Kean, Jr. (right) is held in Havana's \ Castillo del Principe fortress, for a $50,000 ransom. Both men were \ captured in last year's unsuccessful Bay of Pigs invasion attempt. \ Credit: Bob Henriques © 1962 MAGNUM Photos
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