Guantánamo Public Memory Project
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Aaron Reynolds III
Military Dependent | At GTMO 1971 | Source: U. of West Florida Public History Program | Audio Slideshow
Aaron Reynolds III discusses his time as a U.S. military dependent at Guantánamo, going to W.T. Sampson high school and interacting with other members of the base community.…
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Detainee | At GTMO 2001-May 2006 | Source: Witness to Guantánamo | Short Video
Abubakir Qasem discusses his experience as an inmate in the U.S. detention facility in Cuba, and the trying to overcome the perception that he was a terrorist. The…
Go to StoryAlberto Jones
Base Worker | At GTMO 1958 | Source: U. of Miami | Short Video
Alberto Jones discusses his time on the base as a Cuban worker, and the tensions that permeated the experience of traversing the U.S.-Cuban border. The little village where…
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Resident | At GTMO 1961-1995 | Source: U. of Miami | Short Video
The Aldama family reminisces about living in the safe sea-side community that was Guantánamo. Since Fidel Castro communized Cuba, Gitmo has become a key pressure point in…
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Resident | At GTMO 1962-1977 | Source: Picture Projects | Audio Slideshow
Anita Lewis Isom reminisces about living in Guantánamo, and about the anxiety of being evacuated from the base in the face of the Cuban Missile Crisis. My name…
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Military Officer | At GTMO 1975 | Source: U. of West Florida Public History Program | Full Interview (Audio Only)
Barbara Phipps remembers the time she spent with friends when she first arrived at Guantánamo with her family after her father was assigned to the Cuban outpost. My…
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Detainee | At GTMO 2002 - 2007 | Source: American Civil Liberties Union | Short Video
Bisher Al-Rawi recalls being mistreated by his guards while he was detained at Guantánamo. When I hear another prisoner screaming, screaming out of pain and he is right…
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Prison Guard | At GTMO Jan 2002-Mar 2004 | Source: Witness to Guantánamo | Short Video
Brandon Neely remembers his time as a guard at the detention facility at Guantánamo, and the challenge of humanizing the detainees. Oh yea, everyday before there was like…
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Journalist | At GTMO 2002-2006 | Source: Witness to Guantánamo | Short Video
Journalist Carol Rosenberg describes her first visit to Camp Six, and the lack of accessibility to the prisoners. You know when we first went to Camp Six, which…
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Military Officer | At GTMO 1960-1965 | Source: U. of West Florida Public History Program | Audio Slideshow
Former U.S. military serviceman Charles Sizemore remembers his first tour at Guantánamo in 1960. I live in Pensacola, Florida and I am from Dothan, Alabama. That is where…
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