{"id":2499,"date":"2005-06-29T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2005-06-29T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/cms\/?p=2499"},"modified":"2005-06-29T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2005-06-29T00:00:00","slug":"5896292005","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/2005\/06\/29\/5896292005\/","title":{"rendered":"6\/29\/2005"},"content":{"rendered":"

“June 29 [2005]. The National Security Archive releases a memo written by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on December 12 1963 (less than a month after President [John F.] Kennedy’s assassination), in which he seeks to lift the travel ban to Cuba. He refers to the ban as \u2018inconsistent with traditional American liberties.\u2019 Also released is a memo about a December 13 1963 meeting at the State Department (to which Kennedy was not invited), in which Undersecretary of State George Ball rules out the possibility of ending the travel ban.\u201d [Pro Embargo] [Con Embargo]<\/p>\n

Jerry A. Sierra, \u201cEconomic Embargo Timeline,\u201d HistoryofCuba.com<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

“June 29 [2005]. The National Security Archive releases a memo written by Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy on December 12 1963 (less than a month after President [John F.] Kennedy’s assassination), in which he seeks to lift the travel ban to Cuba. He refers to the ban as \u2018inconsistent with traditional American liberties.\u2019 Also released […]<\/p>\n

Read More… from 6\/29\/2005<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"advanced_seo_description":"","jetpack_seo_html_title":"","jetpack_seo_noindex":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[2],"tags":[3],"class_list":["post-2499","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-quotes","tag-quotes"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":2212,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/12\/12\/29212121963\/","url_meta":{"origin":2499,"position":0},"title":"12\/12\/1963","author":"AmarkData","date":"December 12, 1963","format":false,"excerpt":"\"December 12 [1963]. Less than one month after President John F. Kennedy's assassination, U.S. Attorney General Robert F. Kennedy seeks to end the travel ban to Cuba in a memo to Secretary of State Dean Rusk. He refers to the ban as \u2018inconsistent with traditional American liberties,\u2019 and difficult to\u2026","rel":"","context":"In "quotes"","block_context":{"text":"quotes","link":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/category\/quotes\/"},"img":{"alt_text":"","src":"","width":0,"height":0},"classes":[]},{"id":2218,"url":"https:\/\/archive.amarkfoundation.org\/cubanembargo\/1963\/12\/18\/29812181963\/","url_meta":{"origin":2499,"position":1},"title":"12\/18\/1963","author":"AmarkData","date":"December 18, 1963","format":false,"excerpt":"\"NSC [National Security Council], \u2018Travel Controls-Cuba,\u2019 December 18, 1963. This memo, written by the NSC's Latin American specialist Gordon Chase to national security advisor McGeorge Bundy, reveals that the Attorney General's proposal has been overruled at the State Department. 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