Operation Pedro Pan facebook page – http://www.facebook.com/OPPGI
Barry University’s Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh Papers- http://eguides.barry.edu/content.php?pid=285451&sid=2349363
USEFUL LINKS
OFFICIAL POWER POINT PRESENTATION
History of Operation Pedro Pan
by OPPG Historic Committee
VIDEO RESOURCES
Florida Channel video, under the series Florida Crossroads. (Thirty minutes long video about Miami-Dade Region. Operation Pedro Pan starts after minute 15)
“Florida Remembers: The Miami-Dade Region”
OPPG HISTORIC COMMITTEE CONFERENCE
“OPERATION PEDRO PAN: A 50 YEAR PERSPECTIVE”
FYI – The Flight of Pepito: Cuba’s Lost Generation
“1961 WTVJ (Miami’s channel 4) documentary on Cuban refugees and their children narrated by anchorman Ralph Renick“
Televisión Martí presenta “50 años de la Operación Pedro Pan”, un programa Especial sobre la ruta que llevó a tierras de libertad a miles de niños cubanos. Medio siglo después los protagonistas se reencuentran y rememoran uno de los capitulos más dramáticos de la historia del exilio cubano Vea el documental“
INSTRUCTIONAL RESOURCES
Created by the Division of Social Sciences and Life Skills of Miami-Dade County Public Schools in cooperation with the Historic Committee of Operation Pedro Pan Group, Inc. October 2011
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BIBLIOGRAPHIC PRIMARY SOURCES
Below you can find many articles spanning different time periods.
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- Cuban Refugee Children. Msgr. Bryan O. Walsh. 1971. JIAS 13
- The Evansville Press. Article by Gene Miller. March 10/1962
- The Miami Herald. Article by Gene Miller. March 9/1962
- Cuban Children Away From Home-Kathryn Close-1963
- Services to Unaccompanied Cuban Refugee Children in the US-Katherine Oettinger- 1962
- Cuba’s Children in Exile- US Dept. of HEW -1967
- Monsignor Bryan O. Walsh Interview- Barry Univ. Oral History-December 3, 1998
- 50 Aniversario de Operacion Pedro Pan. Carmen Valdivia and Jose A. Amaro Reyes
- Hno. Maximiliano- Carta Navidad- 15 de diciembre 1962
- Recollections of Shared Struggles at Camp St. John-Tom J. Aglio- 2012
- Year of Education proves one of red indocrination. The Palm Beach Post. June 16, 1961
- Castro intensifies campaign to capture Cuban youth. Toledo Blade. Sept. 14, 1964
- On surface there’s liberty in Cuba. Times Daily, Aug. 13, 1959
- Youth powerful under Fidel. Sarasota Journal, Feb. 4, 1960
- Cubans still idealizing Castro. Pittsburgh Post Gazette, July 26, 1960
- Game of playing soldier is serious one.. Star Banner. Feb. 7, 1960
- Tidal Wave of Cuban Children flows out (pag.1) The Oregonian. March 8, 1962
- Tidal Wave of Cuban Children flows out (pag.2) The Oregonian. March 8, 1962
- Cuban Families arrive in Portland. The Sunday Oregonian. March 11, 1962
- Cuban parents, children united after 3 years of separation. The Oregonian. Feb. 12, 1965
- Court’s ruling on the CIA’s role in Operation Pedro Pan / Fallo de la Corte con respecto al papel desempeñado por la CIA en OPP
- Court’s ruling on the redactive process used by the CIA to search for documents related to Operation Pedro Pan in its vaults
- Cuban Refugees in the United States- John F. Thomas-1966
- Operation Pedro Pan: Thirty years later- Msgr. Bryan O. Walsh-1990- Barry University Special Collections/Msgr. B.O. Walsh Papers
BIBLIOGRAPHIC SECONDARY SOURCES
Below you can find many articles spanning different time periods.
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- Finlay, Guarch, O’Farrill, Del Toro
- Monsignor Walsh, Jame Baker, Penny Powers
- Polita Grau de Aguero
- Operation Pedro Pan: The Untold Story of a Cold War Conspiracy. Cathy Areu Jones. Oye Magazine
- When Cuba came to Marquette. Carrie Ann Peterson. Michigan History Magazine. Sept./Oct. 2010
- Fly away….Home? Arlene Geller. Multicultural Review. Fall 2009
- Lincoln, Nebraska. 1962
- A Story of Love and Generosity: 50 years later. Carmencita Romanach. May 2013
- Priest helped bring Cuban families to freedom. The Catholic Key. Dioc.Kansas City/St. Joseph
- A Wing and a Prayer. Univ.Illinois Alumni Magazine. Dec. 2009
- No greater love. Maria L. Ruiz Scaperlanda. July 2011
- Operation Pedro Pan. John Hubbell. Reader’s Digest. February 1998
- Operation Pedro Pan: The untold story of a Cold War Conspiracy. Cathy Areu Jones. Oye Magazine.
- Cuban girls worry about snow. Spokane Daily Chronicle. July 28, 1962.
- Pedro Pans arrive in Duluth, Minnesota. News-Tribune. June 9, 1962.
- Missed by a hair! The Liberty School Explosion. Courtesy D. Burns, Dioc. Sioux, IA
- Pedro Pans arrive in Superior, WI. Courtesy Diocese of Superior.
- Freedom Flights reunite Superior Pedro Pan with his family. Courtesy Diocese of Superior, WI
- First Christmas at Kendall Camp. Carmencita Romanach. Nov. 2013
- Cuban Children Find Haven in Arizona. The Evening Courier. Sept. 19, 1963
- History Remembered by Mirta Ojito. Miami Indulge Magazine, June/July 2015
PEDRO PAN TESTIMONIALS
Below are a few stories as related by former Pedro Pan children.
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HISTORICAL NOTES
Below is a collection of information on the Pedro Pan Camps.
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