This plan, known as the Bay of Pigs Invasion, was carried out in 1961 by Eisenhower's successor, JFK. He deployed a brigade of 1,400 CIA-sponsored Cuban exiles to overthrow Castro's communist ...
Oswald had visited Mexico City several weeks before he assassinated Mr Kennedy in a bid to obtain a visa that would allow him to defect to Cuba. Gerald Posner, author of Case Closed: Lee Harvey Oswald ...