The Bay of Pigs 60th Anniversary: And the
media-Democrat cover-up continues

This proves what I have been saying for years. The biggest mistake this country made was electing John Kennedy. This led to Lyndon Johnson, the Vietnam war, and his Great Society. We have been screwed up ever since. And we have gone soft on crime since those two leading to the unrest today.

This is the first time I have ever read a true account of this infamy.

This is a very accurate account of what happened in Cuba. I know a group of Cuban exiles in South Florida who lived through this, one of whom was a frogman who was wounded in the swamp. The battle plan was sound but JFK suffered from an attack of cowardice and pulled the plug on air support with planes being called back when victory was nearly assured. Cowardice seems to run in that family as proven by Teddy the Swimmer abandoning Mary Jo to drown in his Oldsmobile. How ironic that JFK's ghostwritten book was entitled "Profiles in Courage." I would imagine that most of the people involved in the Bay of Pigs had a lot of nice words to say about that. I would guess this was the likely reason that JFK got himself shot. He had done the same for hundreds of good men in Cuba.

Everyone has a version. Everyone has a reason for failure. What's that about success has many fathers, failure is an orphan? And now, with Raul's stepping down, the USA has another opportunity. Will we take it? The bitterness should not blind us to the potential.

There were many Cubans there to help invade their country to take it back. It was a fresh march for Fidel and the victory at the Bay of Pigs sealed his future with the power. Kennedy blinked and 'chickened out' with the suppose air support. Yeah right, Profiles in Courage nice title bad read.

John F. Kennedy was a product of the media, just like Obama. They fawned over him and Jacqueline. The media took great liberties with Kennedy's Navy service, making him out to be a hero with inflated accounts of his service. They even came up with the term ''Camelot'' to describe Kennedy as royalty in America. The best thing Kennedy ever did was to say: ''Ask not what your country can do for you; ask what you can do for your country.'' Of course, the democrats have ''forgotten'' all about that. Doesn't fit the narrative any more. Now, the democrats promise that the country will do all it can for those who vote democrat and punish those who don't! I wonder what Kennedy would say if he was still alive?

Even back then the media, mainly news papers like the NYT, the Miami Herald and the rest, fully backed Castro and claimed he was not a communist.

Interesting article. Why does the total absence of sources bother me? Could this be fake news? Were the mercenary invaders (yes Virginia, they were well paid and promised more) really death defying heroes? Few believed that then and I doubt that many can be persuaded now. Yes, US airstrikes could have decimated the Castro military but the restoration of Batista's pals would not have necessarily followed. Castro's revolution was not unpopular at the time, most of their blunders lay in the future. Of course Russian inaction could never be assumed, even those who tiptoed into Nam understood that it is a big world and actions can have unforeseen consequences.

#8 - You call for sources. How about sources for your statements? Well-paid mercenaries? Castro's revolution was popular? By whose account? While Batista was no daisy, the absolute abandonment of Cuba to the Soviet Union is a black mark on our nation. It has led to untold suffering for tens of thousands of Cubans who had their freedom and property confiscated for La Revolución! The counter revolution Castro was a murdering bastid. And while questioning the accuracy of the historical record is valuable and necessary, it is unnecessary to polish the turrd of an administration that was the Kennedy years.

A co worker's brother was a soldier in the Bay of Pigs invasion. When Jack Kennedy backed out and cancelled their critical air support literally minutes before the aircraft were to begin dropping bombs, the invaders were just screwed. They had absolutely depended on that air support from the USN. There were armed attack aircraft in the air and inbound when Kennedy cancelled the support, and left them to die on the beaches and be captured and rot in horrible prisons. A few if the USN pilots came extremely close to "not hearing the radio calls", and some later regretted not at least making the one mission. The coworker's brother made it into the swamps nearby, and managed to elude Castro's forces for a short period, but eventually without food or supplies they were all shot or captured. He spent some years in prison and was eventually released and came back to the US. Jack Kennedy was a coward in this one, a total coward.

This was quickly followed by the Cuban missile crisis. Where millions of school kids like me spent endless amounts of time hiding under our desks, or curled up in a ball in the hallways at school preparing for the end of the world.

Didn't realize April 19th was so coincidental to other historic events. Bay of Pigs, Branch Davidian conflagration, bombing the Murrah Building.

#11, my father was sent with a USN squadron to south Florida to intercept all unidentified aircraft in the area during the Cuban missile crisis. We waited in Va, and then moved down to the Keys. Scary times for this school kid.

With the release of documents in hindsight, JFK was ASSURED the plan would succeed, and with the release of those documents, they wanted him to us the U.S. military to cover their asses because there was no element of surprise because the plan was compromised. He only agreed to support the plan if the US military was NOT directly part of the plan and giving air support would have directly involved us. During the Missile Crisis, the military brass and "the company" wanted to INVADE Cuba, and did not obey the Commander-in-Chief by giving orders without his direction and the work of the Mongoose group was not stood down in an effort to create a pretext for going in with the military. He got rid of the people who planned Operation Zapata, and before that when the planning began when RMN was VP, they had already picked a group of exiles (Operation 40) to take over the government. JFK had people the Joint Chiefs of Staff who had the crazy thought of using first strike nuclear weapons, and creating a pretext (Operation Northwoods) to invade after the Bay of Pigs fiasco. Northwoods was kept secret until the Assassination Records Review Board found out about it in the mid-1990's.... He wanted to get out of Vietnam before it escalated because he could not trust what he was being told. LBJ fell or the pretexts of attacks on our ships in the Gulf of Tonkin and THAT got us into Vietnam and the Great Society.