[KentuckianaHeadhunter]

Would have been nice if JFK hadn’t pulled the support when the Cubans were on the shore.

[wtc911]

What is little known is that there was a shadow force of exiles who were trained by the CIA to be hitmen. Their targets were other Brigade 2506 members who might have had their own post-invasion ideas.

These guys never left the US Naval vessel and when the jig was up steamed back for Florida.

[2ndClassCitizen]

Yes but JFK got his just rewards. He left the Cuban freedom fighters to die and be captured. And... he got a bullet in the brain. There is justice.

[OneWingedShark]

I’ve noticed that there is no victory so sure that the leadership cannot snatch defeat from the jaws of victory.

[ReformationFan]

Exactly. I’ve often wondered if our nation would’ve turned out better in the end if Nixon had been the one elected in 1960. This incident probably would’ve been handled better(no 50 years of Castro) and I don’t think Vietnam would’ve turned into the disaster it turned out to be under JFK and LBJ.

[Jaidyn]

Would have been nice if JFK hadn’t pulled the support when the Cubans were on the shore.

My husband was a democrat at that time. He was also a Marine flying to the Bay of Pigs, when they got the call to turn back. That is how close we were. He said that's when he became a republican. All those needless deaths still haunt him.