Interview with Antonio Leon

Antonio Leon was one of 14,008 Cuban children who were part of
( Operation Pedro Pan (1961-1965). These children immigrated to the United States
unaccompanied by their parents under the sponsorship of the Catholic Welfare Bureau in
conjunction with the United States government. Antonio immigrated to the United States age
fourteen in October of 1961. Antonio's experiences within the Pedro Pan program where unique,
in that after arriving and temporarily settling in Miami, Florida, he was relocated on three
occasions to different regions within the United States- in the West in Reno, Nevada, the
Southwest in Albuquerque, New Mexico, and in the Mid-West in Superior, Wisconsin.