Detailed text transcripts for TV channel - MSNBC - 20141218:02:20:00
Morning john kennedy authorsed the cia-backed invasion of cuba by exiles. it didn't work. over a thousand prisoners were locked up. we americans had to ransom them, then john kennedy's operation released operation mongoose which was paramilitary raids and sabotage and efforts to poison the cuban sugar crop and so forth and also led to assassination attempts against fidel castro, who the president may or may not have known about at this time. castro interpreted all this as the prelude to an american full-fledged invasion of cuba and so he went to nikita khrushchev, the leader of the soviet unio...