Abandoned and up for sale at the
time of my visit in July 2001
Residence in its Prime
Biddle (L) gives the Oath of Office to
Douglas Henderson, new US
Ambassador to Bolivia. Secretary of
State Dean Rusk (center) looks on.
Douglas Henderson was taken the
day before the President left for
Dallas. Henderson was the last
American Ambassador to meet with
Kennedy before he was assasinated.
Photos of all the former US Ambassadors to Bolivia - Second row, fourth from
the left is our Ambassador, Douglas Henderson (1964-68). For those interested
in US foreign policy and Latin American history, I recommend you read Henry
Butterfield Ryan's book, "The Fall of Che Guevara." As US Ambassador during a
tumultuous period - the arrival of Guevara and his attempted leftist insurgency in
Bolivia - Ryan gives considerable credit to Ambassador Henderson for
moderating the US response thus preventing a major US military engagement in
South America.
Insurgency
A '60s story tailor-made for
the silver screen. I am
convinced it will happen.
Mid-'60s
There was no TV back then in
Bolivia let alone E-mail, Internet,
faxes, VCRs, etc. The trusty old
Zenith TransOceanic Shortwave
radio was pretty much our only
"real time" electronic link with
home. The Model 3000
pictured above was a nine-band
radio, including AM, seven
shortwave bands, and for the
first-time in any TransOceanic -
FM. It was introduced in the
1963 model year and
manufactured until 1971, when it
was replaced by the 7000. I
remember many a night staying
up listening to baseball games on
Armed Forces Radio.
Shown are the '64 and '65 ACS
yearbooks and my Bolivian
driver's licence awarded at the
age of 15
Greeting Card
