MONROE, La. (KNOE) - When President John F. Kennedy took office in January 1961, he learned of a plan by President Dwight Eisenhower to invade Cuba. The goal was to overthrow Cuba’s new government led ...

Joseph J. Thorndike explores the tax implications of the Kennedy administration's negotiations with Cuba to release the Bay ...

A new installment of “Lessons Learned” is now out. This week I discuss the Bay of Pigs invasion, which began on April 17, 1961. In the video, I look at the mistakes made before and during the invasion ...

BACM Research/PaperlessArchives.com has announced the publishing of never before available to the public CIA documents covering the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba. Online, August 3, 2011 (Newswire.com) ...

MIAMI (AP) — Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier. Soon after, ...

The Bay of Pigs invasion begins when a CIA-financed and -trained group of Cuban refugees lands in Cuba and attempts to topple the communist government of Fidel Castro. The attack was an utter failure.

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 ...

On assignment for U.P.I. in Cuba, he learned of the U.S.- backed effort to overthrow Fidel Castro and was imprisoned. He later worked for The New York Times. By Clyde Haberman Henry Raymont, an ...

Three days after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion collapsed in Cuba, President John F. Kennedy signed a Top Secret letter ...

Bay of Pigs veteran Francisco J. Hernandez points out fellow Brigade 2506 members he knew personally who were killed in the 1961 invasion as the Bay of Pigs Museum prepares to reopen in a new and ...