director of the University of Virginia Center for Politics and author of “The Kennedy Half-Century" The Bay of Pigs fiasco prompts an aide's memo Morley said Schlesinger's memo provides the “origin ...

Media coverage of the Bay of Pigs fiasco was unbridled. Far right: the narrator, as a staff sergeant in the Alabama Air National Guard in the 1950s. Proquest Historical Newspapers; University Of ...

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 ...