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 ...

Hulton-Deutsch Collection / Corbis On June 6, 1961, less than two months after the failed U.S.-backed invasion of Cuba at the Bay of Pigs, enormous wooden crates arrived at San Antonio de los ...

MIAMI, Florida (CNN) -- Four decades after CIA-backed Cuban exiles landed at the Bay of Pigs, passions still run high among survivors of the abortive invasion ... contact with Cuba while Cuban ...

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 ...

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 ...

Standout relics include blood-stained uniforms of the fallen from the Santiago de Cuba Moncada Barracks ... the tank used by Castro during the Bay of Pigs invasion is in full view.

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 ...