NBC WHITE PAPER: CUBA: BAY OF PIGS (TV)

Summary

One in this series of irregularly scheduled documentaries. This program documents events leading to the Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba on April 17, 1961. Events include the following: in March of 1960, Pres. Dwight D. Eisenhower orders CIA director Allen Dulles to train Cuban exiles; on April 5, 1961, Pres. John F. Kennedy approves Dulles's "Operation Pluto," an attack by Cuban exile forces with U.S. air cover. The program includes footage of Kennedy denying U.S. involvement on April 12; footage from April 15th of a B-26 bomber raid on Cuba and of a debate in the United Nations between Cuba's Raul Roa and America's Adlai Stevenson; footage from the invasion and failure on April 17th; Sec. of State Dean Rusk's denial of U.S. involvement; footage of the surrender of invasion forces on April 19th; and public statements after the invasion by Eisenhower and former Vice President Richard Nixon.

Details

• NETWORK: NBC
• DATE: February 4, 1964 10:00 PM
• RUNNING TIME: 0:55:17
• COLOR/B&W: B&W
• CATALOG ID: T79:0066
• GENRE: Public affairs/Documentaries
• SUBJECT HEADING: Bay of Pigs Invasion, Cuba, 1961; Central Intelligence Agency (CIA); Cuba - Foreign relations - U S; Cuba - Officials - Talk/Interviews; U S - Foreign relations - Cuba; U S - Officials - Talk/Interviews
• SERIES RUN: NBC - TV series, 1960-1980
• COMMERCIALS: N/A

CREDITS

• Irving Gitlin … Executive Producer
• Fred Freed … Producer, Writer
• Len Giovannitti … Director, Associate Producer
• Chet Huntley … Narrator
• Elie Abel
• Fidel Castro
• Allen Dulles
• Dwight D. Eisenhower
• John F. Kennedy
• Richard M. Nixon
• Raul Roa
• Dean Rusk
• Ray Scherer
• Adlai Stevenson