In all the hoopla of Castro’s final meeting with the devil I have yet to read anything about the Bay of Pigs invasion.
If I recall correctly (I was a kid then), Kennedy pulled air support of the invasion at the last minute. He had a chance to prevent 50 years of oppression.
I imagine history has been rewritten since those days.
Anyone else have deeper knowledge?
As I recall the air cover for the Bay of Pigs invasion turned out to be much less than was expected and some of the invading force was attacked.
Kennedy promised air support, then renigged. The prisoners were later freed by the USA paying Castro 500 “tractors” which I later learned were not tractors but bulldozers.