However, we had another set of plans that we didn't announce. The FBI bit on our announced plans. We left from some other point. Sixty-nine students went to Cuba and broke the travel ban. I happened to tell a long-time communist about the 69 students going to Cuba.
Every distortion has in it a germ of truth.
The trips to Cuba got enormous publicity. Open defiance of the bosses was rare. But the two trips to Cuba proved that the U.S. bosses weren't invincible. It proved that students were looking for leadership. It proved many, many things.