From the Sierra Leone Times: Kennedy assassination aborted U.S. reconciliation with Cuba.
The author notes what JFK told French journalist Jean Daniel in October 1963.
I can assure you that I have understood the Cubans. I approved the proclamation which Fidel Castro made inthe Sierra Maestra when he justifiably called for justice and specially yearned to rid Cuba of corruption,” Kennedy said. “I will go even further to some extent it is as though Batista was the incarnation of a number of sins on the part of the United States. Now we shall have to pay for those sins. In the matter of the Batista regime, I am in agreement with the first Cuban revolutionaries. That is perfectly clear,” Kennedy told the reporter
Kennedy assassination aborted U.S. reconciliation with Cuba – Sierra Leone Times