The drama of the Kennedy funeral has obliterated the coverage of the other lefty who died recently, Don Hewitt of 60 Minutes fame. Humberto Fontova writes this American Thinker obituary of Hewitt setting the record straight on his involvement in the Castro cover-up. Fontova was a featured speaker at the 2006 Raleigh Spy Conference that discussed Castro and Cuba. (Dates and program for the 2010 conference have not been set yet.)
Forty years after his media
advance-work helping install a Stalinist regime in Cuba the legendary
Don Hewitt of CBS still seemed proud of his work as a Castro media
auxiliary. During that interim, over 20,000 Cubans were murdered by
firing squad and beaten or starved to death in forced labor camps.
Another 70-80 thousand were ripped apart by sharks or drowned in the
Florida straits (attempting to flee a nation that previously took in
more immigrants per-capita than the U.S.)If Mr Hewitt had uttered a single word of remorse regarding this bloodbath, I’d find him easier to praise than to bury.
Shortly
after Herbert Matthews of the New York Times made Fidel Castro an
international pop star on the front page of the (at the time ) world’s
most important newspaper, CBS horned in on the act. The February 1957
NYT’s headline article proclaimed that, “Fidel Castro has strong ideas
of liberty, democracy, social justice, the need to restore Cuba’s
Constitution….this amounts to a new deal for Cuba, radical,
democratic and therefore anti-Communist.”
