WASHINGTON - At 4 a.m. on Jan. 1, 1959, an hour when there never were commercial flights from Havana, David Atlee Phillips was lounging in a lawn chair there, sipping champagne after a New Year's Eve ...
Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier. Soon after, while still ...
Editor’s note: This story was originally published on April 17, 2025. A look back at local, national and world events through Deseret News archives. On April 17, 1961, some 1,400 CIA-trained Cuban ...
Manuel Portuondo was still a teenager in 1960 when his family, like thousands of others, fled Cuba for Miami, following the culmination of the Cuban Revolution a year earlier.Soon after, while still ...
Bay of Pigs veteran Francisco J. Hernandez points out fellow Brigade 2506 members he knew personally who were killed in the 1961 invasion as the Bay of Pigs Museum prepares to reopen in a new and ...
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