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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

More than 100 Cuban exiles died during the Bay of Pigs invasion, 62 years ago this month. Opinion articles provide independent perspectives on key community ... 1961. It was a fittingly ...

Although it took place more than 60 years ago, Eliecer Jiménez-Almeida believes the Bay of Pigs invasion – the failed 1961 CIA-sponsored military operation to overthrow the Fidel Castro government in ...

“Mice 1961” is set in South Florida on the eve of the ill-fated Bay of Pigs invasion, at the height of the Cold War, when a group of Cuban exiles opposed to the Castro regime — and covertly ...

DeSantis Honors Bay of Pigs Veterans on Invasion’s 63rd Anniversary Humberto Fontova | Apr 20, 2024 The opinions expressed by columnists are their own and do not necessarily represent the views ...

'Some good men': Alabama airmen killed at Bay of Pigs to be honored today at Forest Hills Cemetery. The four men were killed in the ill-fated, CIA-backed attempt to invade Fidel Castro's Cuba in 1961.

Malecon in Havana. By Seán Kinane. By Ryan Dailey ©2024 The News Service of Florida. TALLAHASSEE — Flanked by veterans who attacked Cuba during the Bay of Pigs invasion, Gov. Ron DeSantis on Wednesday ...