Sergio Archaca Smith

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name = Sergio Arcacha Smith


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known_for = Involvement in Anti-Castro politics
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Sergio Arcacha Smith is a Cuban exile and, in the early 1960s, was head of the New Orleans chapter of the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front, an anti-Castro group, known in Spanish as the Frente Revolucionario Democrático (FRD). [ [http://www.jfk-online.com/jpsasfrd.html Jerry P. Shinley Archive: Sergio Arcacha Smith and the FRD (Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front): JFK assassination investigation: Jim Garrison New Orleans investigation of the John F. Kennedy assassination ] ] [ [http://www.aarclibrary.org/publib/jfk/hsca/reportvols/vol10/html/HSCA_Vol10_0033a.htm Cuban Revolutionary Council (CRC): New Orleans Chapter] , House Select Committee on Assassinations - Appendix to Hearings, Volume 10, 5, p. 61.] Arcacha Smith had served under Castro's predecessor, the military ruler, Fulgencio Batista. [Summers, Anthony. "Not in Your Lifetime", (New York: Marlowe & Company, 1998), p. 231. ISBN 1-56924-739-0] He was to appear at the Trial of Clay Shaw in New Orleans, Louisiana, but fled to Texas. Texas Governor John Connally, himself a victim of gunfire in the Kennedy assassination, refused to extradite Arcacha Smith to Louisiana for the trial. Jim Garrison continued his prosecution without Arcacha Smith's testimony. [Marrs, Jim. "Crossfire: The Plot that Killed Kennedy", (New York: Carroll & Graf, 1989), p. 507-8. ISBN 0-88184-648-1]

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