CLICK HERE TO HEAR JOHN “TITO” GERASSI (Steal This Radio 117)
Mitchel Cohen interviews radical journalist, author and philosopher John ‘Tito’ Gerassi in 2010.
This remarkable, wonderful comrade and story teller died in July, 2012.
Gerassi was writing for the NY Times in 1962 and later Newsweek when he was sent to cover Che Guevara shortly after the revolution in Cuba. He and Che became friends, and here Gerassi gives riveting anecdotes of those times, including the CIA’s attempt to poison Fidel Castro, and why one ended up poisoning him and 5 other journalists but left Fidel unscathed.
Gerassi, whose godfather was none other than famed French philosopher
Jean-Paul Sartre and whose parents were participants in the Spanish Civil
War (his father became a General conducting the defense of Barcelona
against the fascists), discusses all aspects of his life with Mitchel Cohen, Robert Gold, Linda Zises, and college students Malika and Joe.
CLICK HERE to hear Mitchel’s interview with Tito Gerassi, EDITED FOR PRESENTATION TO WBAI RADIO, 99.5 FM.