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Kennedy’s Bay of Pigs News Conference (Primary source)
On April 21, 1961, four days after the failed Bay of Pigs invasion, President John F. Kennedy held a news conference at the State Department Auditorium in Washington, D.C. Although the meeting opened with announcements—including U.S. support for a broad-scale United Nations attack on world hunger—reporters quickly pressed Kennedy on Cuba.
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