Patrice Lumumba, the assassinated first Prime Minister of the Congo.
Documents from the archives of D'Lynn Waldron, Scripps-Howard foreign correspondent in the Belgian Congo, who was confided in by Patrice Lumumba just prior to Independence.
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LUMUMBA'S OWN STATEMENTS ABOUT HIS POLICIES FOR THE CONGO IN D'LYNN WALDRON'S NOTES MADE IN LUMUMBA'S HOME/HQ IN STANLEYVILLE None of the Lumumba material was ever syndicated by United-Press
D'Lynn Waldron was a foreign correspondent in Stanleyille, Belgian Congo in the spring of 1960, just prior to Independence. D'Lynn posed the questions below, and others, to Patrice Lumumba.

CONTENTS PAGE: LUMUMBA, THE CONGO, AND ALL OF AFRICA

Articles and Commentaries by D'Lynn Waldron ©1960-2006
Lumumba, the assassinated first Prime Minister of the Congo
Below are links to pages containing D'Lynn Waldron's newspaper headline stories, photographs, and the related documents from 1960, with commentaries by D'Lynn Waldron written in after 2000. The subjects covered with original documents on this web site include: Lumumba in Stanleyville and his real attitude towards America and Russia, the secret cannibal war in the Kasai fostered by the Belgian government to sabotage the upcoming independence, which D'Lynn Waldron exposed, and D'Lynn's escape from the South African secret police with the data on the real cost of mining gold
	LINK TO THE AUTHOR'S BIO PAGE
NOTE: MANY OF THESE PAGES HAVE FULL SIZE DOCUMENTS AND MAY TAKE TIME TO LOAD.

THE CONGO & AFRICA
articles and commentaries by D'Lynn Waldron ©2006
NOTE: MANY OF THESE PAGES CONTAIN FULL SIZE DOCUMENTS AND ARE VERY LARGE. IF YOU ARE ON BROADBAND THIS WILL NOT BE A PROBLEM, BUT IF YOU ARE ON A DIAL-UP MODEM, SOME PAGES WILL TAKE A MINUTE OR MORE TO LOAD.

Lumumba, the assassinated first Prime Minister of the Congo.

........Lumumba in Stanleyville- D 'Lynn Waldron's 1960 headline story

........D'Lynn Waldron's commentary on this written in 2001

........Lumumba's telegram regarding troops being brought in, etc.

........D'Lynn Waldron's commentary on her time in the Congo written in 2001

........Lumumba's typed statements on his policies for the Congo with D'Lynn Waldron's handwritten questions

........Patrice Lumumba's statements on his policies for the Congo in D'Lynn Waldron's handwritten interview notes

........Lumumba's statements about the Belgian Admin and General Janssens in Stanleyville (document is a VERY large file!)

........Cable with Lumumba's statements sent by D'Lynn Waldron and not published by Scripps-Howard Newspapers

........Messages carried between Lumumba and General Janssens by D'Lynn Waldron with Lumumba's handwritten comments

.......D'Lynn Waldron's report on conflict between General Jannsens and Patrice Lumumba

.......Refusals of Belgian Administration to transmit D'Lynn Waldron's press cables about Lumumba

.......TIME Magazine's slanders of Patrice Lumumba May 1960

......D'Lynn Waldron's cable to American Consulate in Uganda about hitch hiking out of Congo through Ruanda Urundi

........A GALLERY OF PICTURES OF PATRICE LUMUMBA

........Response to a reader asking why Lumumba was assassinated

.......Raoul Peck's movie "Lumumba" a discussion by D'Lynn Waldron

.......Ludo De Witt's book "The Assassination of Lumumba" a brief review by D'Lynn Waldron

.......E-Mail with historical data concerning her father and family from Dorothee Gizenga

THE TRIBAL WAR IN THE KASAI.

.........The Tribal War In Luluabourg- D'Lynn Waldron's 1960 headline story

.........Kasai section of D'Lynn Waldron's book "Secret in the Heart of Darkness"

........Henry N. Taylor killed filling in for D'Lynn Waldron in Luluabourg the Congo

........Journeys on the Congo and Kasa i Rivers

D'LYNN WALDRON'S ESCAPE FROM SOUTH AFRICA