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Barbara Walters: Happiness is Holding Fidel Castro’s Gun in My Lap

December 17, 2013 By Kathy Shaidle

Well, OK then…

The December 23 edition of People magazine looks through old pictures with Barbara Walters as she “looks back on her most memorable moments” in five decades of television interviews.

During her 1977 interview with Fidel Castro “I spent 10 days with him, traveled through the mountains and held his gun in my lap,” she said. “People thought we had a romance, but we never did.”

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