On April 17, 1961, the CIA-backed Bay of Pigs invasion aiming to overthrow Fidel Castro’s Cuba government began. Poor ...

The failure of the Bay of Pigs invassion in April 1961 was a disaster for the Kennedy administration. It made the young president look weak, and gave fuel to Cold Warriors in both parties who ...

The story goes that after the Bay of Pigs disaster, President Kennedy placed a call to CIA director Allen Dulles. Kennedy supposedly said: "If we lived in a parliamentary system, and I were prime ...