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A Cuban exile brigade, trained and commanded by the CIA, invades Cuba at the Bay of Pigs. As the Cuban army led by Premier Fidel Castro surrounds the invading force, President Kennedy refuses to send in U.S. combat forces. The exile brigade surrenders, and more than one thousand of its members are taken prisoner. President Kennedy realizes he has been drawn into a CIA trap designed to force him to escalate the battle by ordering a full-scale invasion of Cuba by U.S. troops. Kennedy says he wants “to splinter the CIA in a thousand pieces and scatter it to the winds.”

April 15-19, 1961

pam 2y ago

Picked up a book on nuclear energy and its history to have a better understanding on the environment JFK was operating under - and recognising the gravity of his decision of going against the CIA, standing alone and risking his life - all in the pursuit of reducing global nuclear tension - so that we can live in peace.

He was shot dead less than a month after the Cuban Missile Crisis ended.

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pam 2y ago

* correction - JFK was shot a year later. Cuban Missile crisis lasted for 2 weeks in Oct 1962. JFK passed away on Nov 22, 1963.