WCBS - The Saturday News with Robert Trout - 1960-10-29

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[0:01] this is CBS news in New York

[0:04] it's Saturday

[0:06] October 29th your reporter

[0:09] Robert trout

[0:11] hello the pilot of a Cuban airliner

[0:14] today interfected and landed a whole

[0:16] plane load of passengers in Key West

[0:18] after a wild Airborne gun battle with

[0:20] guards of the Costco government one

[0:22] person reportedly one of the guards was

[0:24] killed the pilot himself was wounded and

[0:27] the third person a child was wounded too

[0:29] in the gunfight aboard the plane with 34

[0:32] persons award reportedly was

[0:34] transporting political prisoners from

[0:35] Havana to the Isle of times which is

[0:38] just south of the main island of Cuba so

[0:40] shortly after the takeoff the pilot with

[0:42] his gun in his hand emerged from the

[0:44] cockpit and announced he was taking the

[0:46] plane to Key West the Cuban Army guards

[0:48] aboard immediately opened fire but the

[0:51] pilot although wounded is said to have

[0:52] disarmed them after an exchange of shots

[0:55] there in the air customs and immigration

[0:57] service officials in Key West have

[0:59] confirmed that this Cuban plane has

[1:01] landed but they give us no further

[1:03] information not yet

[1:05] more news in a moment after this message

[1:09] government inspired anxiety in Cuba this

[1:12] weekend seems to be touching a new peak

[1:14] of anger perhaps even fear as the Cuban

[1:16] people are goaded more and more into

[1:18] believing that Invasion by United States

[1:20] armed forces is very near now but El

[1:23] Castro's control Press today labeled as

[1:26] imperialist provocation the announcement

[1:28] by Washington that we have now landed

[1:30] 1450 Marines at our Guantanamo Cuba

[1:34] Naval base from the carrier boxer

[1:36] therefore a wee

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