The disastrous failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion was all the more embarrassing to John F. Kennedy because by some widely believed accounts he lost his nerve and doomed the expedition by calling ...

1963 (UPI)-President Kennedy said Thursday that the United States never planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba.He also told a news conference that continuous ...

Convinced he had been betrayed by his military and intelligence advisors in the decision to launch the Bay of Pigs invasion, John Kennedy placed Cuba in the hands of the one man he knew he could ...

Construction of a new Bay of Pigs Museum and Library is expected to be finished by late July with the museum open by December, organizers say, with a grand opening yet to be scheduled. The new ...

WASHINGTON, Jan. 24, 1963 (UPI)-President Kennedy said Thursday that the United States never planned to provide air cover for the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. He also told a news ...

The name Bay of Pigs will ring a bell with history buffs ... but Castro's forces put the invasion down neatly in just three days. As such, on the bus ride from Havana, you'll see communist ...

DAYS: The first hundred days of a president’s term are considered a benchmark for action. How did it become so important? We owe that to Franklin D. Roosevelt. When he took office in 1933, he took ...

The president was still smarting from the failed April 17 Bay of Pigs invasion, in which a group of U.S.—sponsored Cuban exiles had attempted to land by boat and overthrow Castro's regime ...

1960-61: Duke Field serves as host to several aircraft used to transport personnel and supplies in support of the Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba. • 1970: Duke Field houses Army Special Forces ...