Award-Winning Author and History Professor to Give Talk on Bay of Pigs Invasion

WORCESTER, Mass. – Victor Triay will give a talk titled "Bay of Pigs: Confrontation in Cuba, April 17, 1961" on March 23 at 4 p.m. in Room 304 of the Hogan Campus Center at the College of the Holy Cross. The talk is free and open to the public.

Triay will address the Bay of Pigs invasion from the point of view of Brigade 2506 and the reasons for its failure. Most of the approximately 1,500 men of Brigade 2506, made up of idealistic participants who came together in April 1961 to overthrow Fidel Castro’s dictatorship, were captured by Castro’s forces in Cuban swamps and jailed until December 1962. About 114 died. Triay’s book tells who the individual members of the brigade were and what they fought for.

Triay is the author of Bay of Pigs: An Oral History of Brigade 2506 (University Press of Florida, 2001), which received the Samuel Proctor Oral History Prize from the Florida Historical Society and Fleeing Castro: Operation Pedro Pan and the Cuban Children’s Program (University Press of Florida, 1998). His most recent book is The Cuban Revolution: Years of Promise (University Press of Florida, 2005). Triay, whose parents left Cuba in 1960, grew up in Miami. He is professor of history at Middlesex Community College in Middletown, Conn.

The event is sponsored by the Latin American and Latino Studies concentration.