1766078 Fidel Castro arrives at Washington airport, 1959 (b/w photo) by Leffler, Warren K. (fl.1963); Private Collection; (add.info.: Fidel Alejandro Castro Ruz (1926-2016) Cuban politician and revolutionary, Prime Minister of the Republic of Cuba from 1959-76, President 1976-2008. He visited the US at the invitation of the American Society of Newspaper Editors, four months after leading the Cuban revolution. He resigned from the Central Committe of the Communist Party of Cuba in 2011.); American, out of copyright.