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The first word came from the UPI listening post in Miami. Unknown Speaker: "An invasion force landed in south central Cuba this morning, some 90 miles from Havana, and is fighting its way towards ...

On the 63rd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, four Alabama airmen who lost their lives during the mission were honored ...

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 ...

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 conference that ...

A rare Douglas A-26 Invader landed at the airport ahead of Tuesday's commemoration of the Bay of Pigs Invasion.

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...