Video: 'Bay Of Pigs Invasion (1961)'
(Monday, April 17, 1961, at about 1:00 a.m. EST; during the Bay of Pigs Invasion, part of the Cold War) — About 1,500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles, covertly financed and directed by the U.S. government, launched the ill-fated Bay of Pigs Invasion of Cuba early today in an attempt to overthrow the increasingly-communist government headed by Fidel Castro.
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