In a news report aired by WBAY-TV in Green Bay, Rodgers was shown ignoring the autograph request of Jan Cavanaugh, a cancer patient wearing pink Packers gear, at the airport as the team was preparing to leave for Atlanta.
Returning to Cuba, Castro took a key role in the Cuban Revolution by leading the Movement in a guerrilla war against Batista's forces from the Sierra Maestra. After Batista's overthrow in 1959, Castro assumed military and political power as Cuba's Prime Minister. The United States came to oppose Castro's government, and unsuccessfully attempted to remove him by assassination, economic blockade, and counter-revolution, including the Bay of Pigs Invasion of 1961.
In 1952 Batista returned and took power in a coup dâetat. That set a lot of revolutionary movements into play. One of those movements was led by Fidel Castro. In 1953 he led a force of about 100 men and attacked an Army barracks and killed a couple dozen soldiers and policemen. Many of Castroâs men were shot on the spot but he and his brother were able to elude capture and later negotiated a surrender.