A new verb?
I hadn’t heard all of this. “Coat and tails”...
Saint JFK just another slimy politician. Whodathunk?
This single event is the most upsetting of the JFK decisions.
Heartbreaking.
this incident is what lead to castro requesting and giving permission to russia to place nukes on the island..
jfk did not solve the cuban missile crisis...
jfk CAUSED the cuban missile crisis...
Two of my classmates survived the Bay of Pigs and prison to escape and eventually got his PhD in Chemical Engineering. He never talked about it. I learned about him from other Cuban students.
He never talked about it, but the words he used for Castro and Kennedy cannot be printed here.
Or else you will have to ransom some the participants captured and in prison by giving the ENEMY lots of money, medical supplies and 500 tractors.
According to this article there are still survivors in Cuban prisons. It was not agricultural tractors but industrial tractors like Caterpillar type tractors.
http://news.bbc.co.uk/onthisday/hi/dates/stories/december/24/newsid_3295000/3295045.stm
http://www.gwu.edu/~erpapers/teachinger/glossary/tractors-for-freedom-com.cfm
And after 54 years, the Castros are still trying to make "La Revolo-o-shun" a success.
And Castro went on to infiltrate and poison Central and South America. If Kennedy had not been shot...
I tell all teens I know if the subject matter turns to history, to question the myth of his Presidency and introduce the concept he dropped the ball at the Bay of Pigs and to do your research.
I think it is true to say, he was mediocre at best, ranking right up their with the worst of the 19th and 20th Centuries, you can name the rest, you all know them well....
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American RATS have more in common with Castro than with freedom. Was and stlll is the case.
Making Cuba safe for mob boss Santos Trafficante. The presumed anti-Castro citizens of Cuba were supposed to rise up in support of the invasion. Bad bit of intel gathering there. Apparently were so disgusted with their tin horn dictator Batista, they were willing to trade for one without the mob or C&H sugar as the invisible hand in Cuban affairs. Our raw materials exploitation throughout the 3rd World handed nation after nation to the commies and still does today. We need to get smarter faster, that’s all there is to it.
JFK abandoned the Cubans on the beach to a waiting Castro. It was for him the better answer than canceling the operation.
He did essentially the same thing to Eisenhower’s Tibetans who were wiped out to the man. They died as their CIA handlers begged for ammo and an air drop.
He pulled Eisenhower’s team out of Viet Nam (the ones who had beat the communists in the Philippines) and turned it over to his Harvard brain trust, and murdered Diem.
The guy was a wrecking ball.
Lee Jackson’s recent historical fiction novel, Curse of the Moon, starts with the invasion and lack of US support. A great novel.
Good article. I can’t remember the last time I saw someone mention John Kennedy’s refusal to supply air support as the factor that doomed the operation.
The Bay of Pigs invasion was drawn up while Eisenhower was still President. It included air support- the old General knew a lot about how to conduct an amphibious landing.