Arthur Schlesinger Jr.'s April 24 op-ed column, "Bush's Thousand Days," omitted mention of the failed Bay of Pigs invasion in 1961 ... neighbor and heightened Cold War tensions.

With the Cold War in full swing the United States didn ... Kennedy landed on the Bay of Pigs. They encountered and swiftly dealt with a Cuban militia. Then things went wrong.

Kennedy answers questions at a press conference about the attempted invasion of Cuba ... later explained. The Bay of Pigs is one of America's most infamous Cold War blunders, and it has been ...

The disastrous failure of the Bay of Pigs invasion was all the more embarrassing ... Despite the impressive cold war victory that Kennedy scored when Khrushchev called back the missiles, Castro ...

On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in an ... battled in words and bullets during the Cold War, with the island of Cuba serving as ...

Rather, Cold War politics were front and center ... The president was still smarting from the failed April 17 Bay of Pigs invasion, in which a group of U.S.—sponsored Cuban exiles had attempted ...

Although it took place more than 60 years ago, Eliecer Jiménez-Almeida believes the Bay of Pigs invasion – the failed 1961 CIA-sponsored ... and eventual return to the U.S. “This momentous episode of ...

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 ...