The Wall Street Journal told of at least three landings in “a land, air and sea struggle” to topple Fidel Castro's regime in Cuba.
The Miami Herald spoke of battles raging “throughout” the island.
The United Press International wire service said invading “revolutionaries … appeared to have knocked back Fidel Castro's forces in the initial assault.”
Thus, a sampling of some of the erroneous first U.S. news reports about the ill-fated invasion of Cuba, launched 50 years ago this weekend at the Bay of Pigs.
Castro's military overwhelmed the assault in less than three days; the CIA-trained invasion force of some 1,400 Cuban exiles never gained much more than a bitterly contested beachhead.
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