Billy Corben

I said, well, I'm fine.

Thank you for calling and checking on me.

She goes, no, about this Watergate burglar.

And sure enough, the last line in The New York Times obit.

quoted my Facebook page and became what I wanted to be the last line of my documentary.

But when we interviewed him, he passed away at 98 years old, by the way, he lamented his unsuccessful lifelong mission to free his homeland and the friends who sacrificed their lives at Playa Giron.

Quote, for what?

They all died for nothing.

We lost Cuba, end quote.

Then suddenly his eyes brightened up like he was just struck by a sweet, warm breeze off the coast of Baradero.

And he grinned slyly.

But we won Miami.

And I was like, well, great line.

And it's true.

It's true.

Yeah.

John Lee Anderson, please read this story at New Yorker dot com.

It's absolutely fascinating and a great piece of what people might consider kind of old school shoe leather journalism.

I mean, these dispatches to just a very vivid and frightening Cuba and a very.

Very disturbing Miami as well.