Operation Pedro Pan was a U.S. government program that brought more than 14,000 unaccompanied Cuban children to the United States, granting them visa waivers and paths to U.S. citizenship.
The program started in 1960 and was halted two years later in the wake of the U.S.-Cuban Missile crisis.
The National Museum of American History hosts a roundtable discussion on the Legacy of Operation Pedro Pan featuring participants in the program and human rights scholars.