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 ...

Former CIA historian Nicholas Dujmovic talks about the exiles who participated in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Javascript must be enabled in order to access C-SPAN videos. *This transcript was ...

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 ...

MIAMI (CBSMiami/CNN) - 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 ...

Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s April 24 op-ed column, "Bush's Thousand Days," omitted mention of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 and the role it played in the Cuban missile crisis. Intelligence ...

About 60 Alabama Air National Guard volunteered to train Cuban exiles to fly aircraft for the invasion ... Air National Guard honored the Bay of Pigs veterans with a memorial service.

Students in the Honors College are gaining a personal and historical understanding of the 1961 operation to liberate communist Cuba through a new course titled “The Secret War: Brigade 2506 and the ...

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 ...

OCNER [email protected] On a rain-soaked Wednesday afternoon, the city of Miami unveiled a statue commemorating the 62nd anniversary this month of the Bay of Pigs invasion, the one and last ...

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 ...

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 ...