General Walker shot at in his home. Walker was sitting at a desk in his dining room (working on his federal income tax returns) when Lee Harvey Oswald fired at him from less than one hundred feet (30 m) away. Walker survived only because the bullet struck the wooden frame of the window, which deflected [...]
Also tagged Edwin Walker, Lee Harvey OswaldThe April 15 – April 19, 1961 Bay of Pigs Invasion (also known in Cuba as the Playa Girón after the beach in the Bay of Pigs where the landing took place) was an unsuccessful United States-planned and funded attempted invasion by armed Cuban exiles in southwest Cuba. An attempt to overthrow the government of [...]
Also tagged Allen W Dulles, Bay of Pigs, Charles Cabell, CIA, Cuba, Fidel Castro, Operation Pluto, Operation Zapata, Richard Bissell