How the Bay of Pigs Invasion Changed JFK

President John F. Kennedy fields a question at a press conference on April 14, 1961, in Washington, DC. This press conference took place three days before the failed 'Bay of Pigs' invasion of Cuba and just three months into Kennedy's presidency.

The disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion, early in John F. Kennedy’s presidency, led him to reconfigure his foreign policy decision-making process.

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