Address given by John F. Kennedy on the events in Cuba (20 April 1961)
Text On 20 April 1961, three days after the failed attempt by Cuban exiles to land in the Bay of Pigs, Cuba, the US President, John F. Kennedy, describes the event in an address given to the American Society of Newspaper Editors.
Source and copyright
Source: Office of the Federal Register (Ed.). John F. Kennedy, Containing the public messages, speeches and statements of the president : January 20 to December 31, 1961. Washington: US Government Printing Office, 1962. 908 p. (Public Papers of the Presidents). p. 304-306.
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