Log-in to bookmark & organize content - it's free! Archival video of the Bay of Pigs invasion and the reaction among countries is shown. On April 17, 1961, a force of more than 1,400 CIA-trained ...

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 ...

Nothing epitomizes the disastrous Cuba policy of the United States better than the abortive, three-day, failed Bay of Pigs invasion conducted by anti-Castro Cuban exiles in April 1962. In the ...

(An important distinction to note: The group that represents the remaining members of the failed 1961 invasion at the Bay of Pigs do not collectively stand for Miami Cubans, or the general Cuban ...

Today, it will do a flyover in commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion. The A-26 and close relative B-26 cemented Alabama as a pivotal player in the failed invasion in 1961.

But for those who stormed a small stretch of Cuban coastline on April 17, 1961, the failed Bay of Pigs invasion was a turning point in the fight against an oppressive communist dictatorship ...

Newly declassified documents show that a CIA field operative accidentally fired on friendly pilots during the failed Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961. The documents were released Monday by ...

"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 ...

TALLAHASSEE — Flanked by veterans who attacked Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday signed a measure that will lead to the history of communism being taught in grades ...

Former CIA historian Nicholas Dujmovic discusses the planning of the Bay of Pigs invasion and what went wrong when it was executed. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos.

The next day they were awakened by the sound of gunfire. The Bay of Pigs invasion had begun. “We were caught in the middle of the fighting between the mercenaries and Cuban forces. Planes were ...