50 Years Later: Learning From The Bay Of Pigs by NPR STAFF

http://www.npr.org/2011/04/17/135444482/50-years-later-learning-from-the-bay-of-pigs

Fifty years ago Sunday, a brigade of around 1,500 CIA-trained soldiers stormed the beach in Cuba’s Bay of Pigs. It was the opening phase of a secret mission to overthrow Fidel Castro and, President John F. Kennedy hoped, halt the spread of communism throughout the world.

Things did not go as planned.