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  2. We choose to go to the Moon - Wikipedia

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    American prestige was further damaged by the Bay of Pigs fiasco five days later. [ 2 ] [ 3 ] Convinced of the political need for an achievement which would decisively demonstrate America's space superiority, Kennedy asked his vice president , Lyndon B. Johnson , in his role as chairman of the National Aeronautics and Space Council , to identify ...

  3. Bay of Pigs Invasion - Wikipedia

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    The Bay of Pigs Invasion (Spanish: Invasión de Bahía de Cochinos, sometimes called Invasión de Playa Girón or Batalla de Playa Girón after the Playa Girón) was a failed military landing operation on the southwestern coast of Cuba in April 1961 by the United States of America and the Cuban Democratic Revolutionary Front (DRF), consisting ...

  4. Kennedy Doctrine - Wikipedia

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    the Bay of Pigs Invasion, April 17, 1961; ... Inaugural Address of John F. Kennedy at the Avalon Project at Yale Law School. Viotti, Paul R, American Foreign Policy ...

  5. David Ferrie - Wikipedia

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    In July 1961, Ferrie gave an anti-Kennedy speech before the New Orleans chapter of the Military Order of World Wars, in which "his topic was the Presidential administration and the Bay of Pigs Invasion fiasco." [5] In his speech, Ferrie attacked Kennedy for refusing to provide air support to the Bay of Pigs invasion force of Cuban exiles. [14]

  6. Richard N. Goodwin - Wikipedia

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    Richard Naradof Goodwin (December 7, 1931 – May 20, 2018) was an American writer and presidential advisor. He was an aide and speechwriter to Presidents John F. Kennedy and Lyndon B. Johnson, and to Senator Eugene McCarthy and Senator Robert F. Kennedy.

  7. Cuban Missile Crisis - Wikipedia

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    Universal Newsreel about the Cuban Missile Crisis. The Cuban Missile Crisis, also known as the October Crisis (Spanish: Crisis de Octubre) in Cuba, or the Caribbean Crisis (Russian: Карибский кризис, romanized: Karibskiy krizis), was a 13-day confrontation between the governments of the United States and the Soviet Union, when American deployments of nuclear missiles in Italy ...

  8. James B. Donovan - Wikipedia

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    Donovan with President John F. Kennedy in 1962. In June 1962, Donovan was contacted by Cuban exile Pérez Cisneros, who asked him to support the negotiations to free the 1,113 [14] prisoners of the failed Bay of Pigs Invasion. [6] [15] Donovan offered pro bono legal service for the Cuban Families Committee of prisoners' relatives. [15]

  9. Richard M. Bissell Jr. - Wikipedia

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    The Brilliant Disaster: JFK, Castro, and America's Doomed Invasion of Cuba's Bay of Pigs. Scribner. ISBN 978-1416596509. Taubman, Phil. Secret Empire: Eisenhower, the CIA, and the Hidden Story of America’s Space Espionage (New York: Simon & Schuster, 2003). ISBN 0-684-85699-9