Fidel Castro's Bay of Pigs Debacle

The Bay of Pigs invasion was a complete military disaster from start to finish, says historian Alex von Tunzelmann. The night before it happened Fidel Castro declared himself publicly to be a socialist - the first time he had ever done so. He said what they cannot bear is that we have made a socialist revolution under the nose of the United States. We'll also explore the motives of Khrushchev and Castro in secretly placing Soviet nuclear missiles in Cuba.