Elisa Glen Alfonso

ReSounding the Lost Apple: Operation Pedro Pan and Communicating Grief through Musical Performance

Abstract From December 1960 to October 1962, over 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban minors arrived in the United States as part of a covert airlift known as Operation Pedro Pan (OPP). Like most Cold War initiatives, OPP became entrenched in polarizing political rhetoric that obscured th...