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After nearly four decades of government denial, the deeds of four
Alabama Air National Guardsmen who died at the Bay of Pigs in 1961
have been made public and their names memorialized at the CIA’s
Wall of Honor in Langley, Virginia. Their stories can now be told.
The four guardsmen who died flew with a group of Alabama volunteers
to secret CIA bases in Guatemala and Nicaragua to train Cuban
exiles to fly B-26 bombers in support of the invasion forces. When
the small group of exhausted pilots could no longer sustain the air
battle, seven Alabama Guardsmen flew with them into combat on the
final day of the invasion in a futile attempt to stave off defeat
at the embattled beachhead. The body of one of these men, Thomas W.
"Pete" Ray, remained in Cuba until 1978 where it was frozen as a
war trophy and as evidence of U.S. complicity in the failed 1961
invasion.
In this first authorized biography of former Alabama Governor John
Patterson, historian Warren Trest offers new insights and rich
details into the life of a significant Southern politician whose
career touched some of the key struggles of the twentieth-century
civil rights movement. Patterson later recanted his segregationist
views and went on to become a widely respected judge, but as
governor from 1958–62, he led Alabama into full white-supremacist
rebellion against the national effort to integrate schools and
public accommodations. He was a rare Southern supporter of JFK in
1960, but the two broke bitterly over the 1961 Freedom Rides and
Kennedy had to send federal marshals into Montgomery to quell
KKK-led mobs. Not merely a civil rights account, Nobody But the
People also details Patterson's World War II heroism, his role as
attorney general in cleaning up vice and corruption, and his
efforts to improve education and the economy. Patterson is revealed
as a complex and likable politician and jurist whose career was
unfortunately blighted by decisions he later regretted on racial
issues.
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