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1961, the Bay of Pigs invasion
By The Associated Press Today is Thursday, April 17, the 107th day of 2025. There are 258 days left in the year. Today in ...
A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained ...
A key adviser warned President John F. Kennedy after the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in 1961 that the agency ...
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.
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 continuous ...
On the 63rd anniversary of the Bay of Pigs invasion, four Alabama airmen who lost their lives during the mission were honored ...
Yesterday, a rare Douglas A-26 Bomber flew into Birmingham-Shuttlesworth International Airport. Today, it will do a flyover ...
The 106th Air Refueling Squadron of the Alabama Air National Guard, in collaboration with the Southern Museum of Flight and ...
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 continuous ...
(AP Photo/Bill Achatz, File) 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.