However, six decades later, the failed invasion and Kennedy ... “I think you can draw a straight line from the trauma of the Bay of Pigs, and the generational trauma of the Bay of Pigs ...

Sixty years after the Bay of Pigs invasion - the failed attempt to overthrow Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba - the island continues to celebrate its victory while the invaders who survived live on ...

On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion within three days.

A newsreel describing the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion (Primary Source) A newsreel describing the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion (Primary Source) Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN ...

"We thought, 'This is the invasion boys, be careful ... who has written extensively on the Bay of Pigs, drawing heavily on declassified CIA documents. Image caption, Gregorio Moreira still ...

"And indeed it was," he says, after the Bay of Pigs. "Castro became far more powerful after the invasion. He became more closely tied to the Soviet Union." But the most important legacy of the Bay ...