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    "title": "Cuban Prisoners Release Project Joseph Dolan Interview July 8, 1964",
    "description": "Joseph F. Dolan interviewed by Francis J. Hunt DeRosa on Mr. Dolan's role in securing the release of the prisoners captured during the Bay of Pigs operation.",
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    "ocrText": "The President spoke quite simply, but quite eloquently. After he\nhad concluded his remarks, we were all seated over in one side of\nthe stadium in the small stands behind the goal line. As he came\nto leave the stadium, he stopped there and came over and shook\nhands and said hello to all of us who were there, which we appreciated\nvery much. That was on the 29th of December in 1962.\nMr. Dolan: About Friday, December 7, 1962, I was told\nthat Assistant Attorney General Oberdorfer had been trying to get\nme the day before and wanted to see me on something that was of\ngreat importance. When I arrived at his office, I saw that there\nwere four or five people sitting around his desk talking. Lou\nOberdorfer looked up and said to me, \"Bob has a project going;\nwe are going to try to get the Cuban prisoners out. \" I said, \"Oh,\ndamn.' Everybody looked at me in a surprised way. I sat down\nand was there for about a minute or a minute and a half, when all\nof a sudden I said, \"Oh. \" Lou said, \"What is the matter ?\" I\nsaid, \"You mean we are going to negotiate. Everybody laughed.\nI really thought that with Bob Kennedy we were going to get something\ngoing with some boats and we were going down to get the prisoners\nout. I had just returned from Oxford, Mississippi, and expected\nt\nanything. I didn¹t think we were going to use drugs or anything else.\nWe embarked that day on expanding the personnel that was available\n2"
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