Do YOU remember? Part 1

 Do YOU remember? This is the first of a two part series on the Bay of Pigs' Invasion.

This is a newspaper clipping I found from the Marin IJ of a headline from April 21^st.  I find this article particularly fascinating considering the misinformation that was reported by the Kennedy Administration at that time.

                The Bay of Pigs’ Invasion was a series of attacks on Cuba by CIA sponsored Ex-Cuban exiles from April 15-20^th 1961.  I included two clips from the Marin IJ’s Newspaper from April 15-28^th 1961.

The Freedom of Information Act of 1998, which requires government documents to be declassified over 50 years, allowed many historians to investigate further into the Bay of Pigs fiasco.  They were able to finally see the CIA’s internal investigation on the invasion called, The Inspector General’s Survey of the Cuban Operation.  By seeing the first-hand accounts of the Marin IJ’s newspapers, I was shocked at what the government was not providing the media with information for Kennedy said, “the facts would be revealed in due time” (pg.1)  The confusion of U.S. involvement was circling and there were even protests by U.S. students.  This event was a dramatic affair in the U.S. which I feel was overshadowed by the escalated Cuban Missile Crisis.

By Sarah Jochumson, Collections Intern