On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple Fidel Castro, whose forces crushed the incursion within three days.

A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an attempt to topple ...

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TODAY AT 2 P.M., THERE WILL It has been 64 years since four Alabama men lost their lives serving their country as airmen for the infamous Bay of Pigs mission. In 1961, Leo Baker, Wade Gray, Pete Ray ...

A soldier of the Cuban Armed Forces stands next to US-built armaments captured after some 1,500 anti-Castro allies came ashore at Playa Giron beach during the Bay of Pigs invasion on the south coast ...

Canel, First Secretary of Cuba’s Communist Party Central Committee and Cuban President, recalled the 1961 US-led mercenary ...

Secretary of State Marco Rubio has commemorated the anniversary of the Assault Brigade 2506’s (Brigade 2506) involvement in the Bay of Pigs invasion. Brigade 2506 was a military special operations ...

Newly Released JFK Files Reveal CIA Power Struggles, Cold War Intrigue — But No Smoking Gun More than six decades after President John F. Kennedy was gunned down in Dallas, newly unsealed government ...

Today, it will do a flyover in commemoration of the 64th anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion. The A-26 and close relative B-26 cemented Alabama as a pivotal player in the failed invasion in 1961.