Bibliography and sources:
Note 1: Bibliography of General Paul
Eugene Magloire by Dr. Raymond Bernadin, page 229 (the
1950 Constitution and the political dilemma that existed
in 1956), and page 271:
{Ceux qui l’approchaient dans leur démarches,
afin d’organiser la lutte contre le duvaliérisme
destructeur, recevaient certes tout l’encouragement
nécessaire.}{Those who approach him in their
efforts to organize the fight against the destructive
Duvalierist government indeed received all the encouragement
they needed}
Note 2: Page 214, Genèse d’une
République Héréditaire by Maurepas
Auguste
Note 3. All eight men were acting
as tourists in the area of Montruis and Kyona Beach.
They had their swimming trunks while on the beach. But
at night, they were placing weapons in a small cabin
own by a rich mulatto businessman called Robert Nadal,
without his knowledge. [The beach property where the
boat was did belong to Mr. Nadal] As reported by Carl
Fonbrum in his news radio editorial of 21 March 2004.
Note 4: Name of the Tap-Tap pick up
truck was “Ma Douce Clairmène, Malgré
Tout, Dieu Maître”
[Tap-Tap = Privately owned public conveyance transportation
like a mini-bus]
Note 5: The three former Haitian officers
were dressed in their Haitian Army uniform.
Note 6: In Haiti, the Army also functioned
as the police force throughout the country at that time.
Note 7: At the same time, the group
leader “Sonson” Pasquet had 16 friends in
Miami who were getting weapons and ammunition for 150
brave young men. The weapons and ammunition were to
be placed on board a plane in the Dominican Republic
which would then be flown to Haiti. Their bad luck was
that a custom inspector in Miami stopped them.
As reported by Carl Fonbrum in his news radio editorial
of 21 March 2004.
Note 8: According to Diederich, it
was Perpignan who sent for the cigarettes.
Note 9: This was to respond to machine
gun fire coming from a window of the Casernes that covered
the area of the Dessalines Mosoleum.
Note 10: One of the white men, Arthur
Payne, age 34, a deputy sheriff in Miami-Dade County,
had received a bullet in the kidney (at Délugé).
[This information about the kidney wound has not been
verified by eyewitnesses of the time and seems to come
from the télé-diol.]
Note 11: An eyewitness of that time
reports that by 6 AM, the Ministry of the Interior was
distributing weapons to anyone who showed up to defend
Duvalier.
Haiti Observateur, La Marche du Temps,
10 August 1979
Papa Doc, a book by Al Burt and Bernard Diederich
Leaders of Haiti by Max Manigat.
Translation from Creole of Carl Fonbrum’s radio
editorial of 21 March 2004.
Notes and Interviews with relatives and friends who
lived through these events of 1958.
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