Editing History Will Absolve Me (section)

===Origins and historicity===
Castro's defense speech was first printed in pamphlet form, titled ''History Will Absolve Me'', and distributed around Cuba in 1954.<ref>{{cite book |last=Quiroga |first=Jose |date=2005 |title=Cuban palimpsests
 |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=2FHV2hCse18C&dq=history+will+absolve+me+pamphlet&pg=PA28 |location= |publisher=University of Minnesota Press |page=28 |isbn=9780816642144 |access-date=}}</ref> Witnesses of Castro's original defense speech, like Judge Nieto, and Lieutenant Camps, have claimed that Castro's original speech was nowhere near as long as what is recorded in the pamphlet ''History Will Absolve Me''. Historian Antonio Rafael de la Cova suggests that the recorded material outruns the two hours in which it is alleged Castro used to give his speech.<ref name=antonio>{{cite book |last=Rafael de la Cova |first=Antonio |date=2007 |title=The Moncada Attack Birth of the Cuban Revolution |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=rfMvP7aaz_oC&dq=History+Will+Absolve+Me+castro+hitler&pg=PA231 |location= |publisher=University of South Carolina Press |page=230-1 |isbn=9781570036729 |access-date=}}</ref> 

The journalist [[Herbert Matthews]], who frequently interviewed Castro, claims that the origins of the pamphlet are incredibly difficult to deduce. According to historian Peter C. Bjarkman, the only solid evidence of the writing of the pamphlet comes from a letter from Fidel Castro to [[Melba Hernández]], in which he states he will be writing a pamphlet detailing his goals. This pamphlet was to be written before the founding of the [[26th of July Movement]].<ref>{{cite book |last=Bjarkman |first=Peter |date=2018 |title=Fidel Castro and Baseball The Untold Story |url=https://books.google.com/books?id=C31xDwAAQBAJ&dq=history+will+absolve+me+pamphlet&pg=PA9 |location= |publisher=Rowman and Littlefield Publishers |page=9 |isbn=9781538110317 |access-date=}}</ref>