Cuban Prisoners Release Project Joseph Dolan Interview July 8, 1964

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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CUBAN PRISONERS RELEASE PROJECT Interviewee: Mr. Joseph F. Dolan Assistant Deputy Attorney General Department of Justice Interviewer: Mr. Francis J. Hunt DeRosa Place: Mr. Dolan¹s Office Date: July 8, 1964 Mr. Dolan: After the entire project had been completed, the President was kind enough to extend an invitation to some of the people who had participated in it at all levels from Mr. Louis Oberdorfer to and including the secretaries to attend the ceremony in the Orange Bowl. On very short notice we were told that if we went to the National Airport at quarter to five in the morning we would be flown to Florida, which we did, and arrived just barely in time at the Orange Bowl stadium, just as the President began to speak, It was one of the most moving experiences I have ever had, The Brigade was there, and the families were in the stands. Intervièwee Interviewer