American Experience

American Comandante

Season 28 Episode 1 | 52m 2s  | Video has closed captioning.

When William Morgan was executed outside a Havana prison on March 11, 1961, his strange story seemed to vanish from the popular imagination as quickly as it had appeared; it was lost in the classified archives of the Cold War and edited out of Cuban history by Fidel Castro’s retelling of the revolution.

Aired: 11/17/15

Expired: 11/16/18

Rating: NR

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