PLAYA GIRON, Cuba – I am in a village on the south coast of Cuba, a rustic area where wild pigs once ran in such abundance as to prompt passing merchant vessels and pirate ships to drop anchor and ...
A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency behind it, the CIA, had grown too powerful. He proposed giving the State ...
The time was about 4 a.m. President John F. Kennedy, still wearing his dress clothes from a fancy congressional dinner, was alone with his thoughts, as he strolled on the south lawn of the White House ...
Kennedy had inherited the Bay of Pigs plan from his predecessor, President Dwight Eisenhower, and had been in office less than three months when the operation launched in April 1961 as a covert ...