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Bay of Pigs Invasion

Witness: Bay Of Pigs Invasion April 17 1961 – Alfredo Duran

witnessBay of Pigs Invasion: In April 1961 Cuban exiles, backed by the US government, tried to overthrow Fidel Castro.  Fifty years ago boatloads of counter-revolutionaries stormed the beaches of a bay in Cuba.  They soon ran out of ammunition, and without backup their mission failed.  We hear from one of those exiles.

16660297Bay of Pigs Invasion by Jesse Russell (Editor), Ronald Cohn (Editor)

High Quality Content by WIKIPEDIA articles! The Bay of Pigs Invasion was an unsuccessful action by a CIA-trained force of Cuban exiles to invade southern Cuba, with support and encouragement from the US government, in an attempt to overthrow the Cuban government of Fidel Castro. The invasion was launched in April 1961, less than three months after John F. Kennedy assumed the presidency in the United States. The Cuban armed forces, trained and equipped by Eastern Bloc nations, defeated the invading combatants within three days.

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