through the efforts of janet ray, mainly, and other people that is not, the truth came out. and we now all know what the truth is, that these four men died in battle fighting for their country. let me take one more question. does anybody -- you had one. did you want to ask one? >> you said that president kennedy felt personally guilty for not ordering the secondary strike, but, um, he made it clear that he was upset with the cia over the failure of the bayy of pigs because he fired many of the heads of the cia afterwards. >> that's right. he fired alan dulles, he fired richard bissell, and he fired charles -- [inaudible] who was the second in if command at the cia. he fired the whole top. he was upset with the cia. he thought the cia had misled him. partly, though, you have to understand that was scapegoating, and i don't mean that as being highly critical. look, even before the invasion arthur schlesinger wrote a memo saying if something bad should happen, somebody's neck has to go on the chopping block, and it can't be the president's. and so it was the cia's, and the -- t

on this day janet ray was here with us today and was a big help when i was writing the book as well as the veterans of the brigade when i visited them over the bay of pigs invasion and i'm grateful for your help and their help and i'm grateful for coming and listening to me tonight. and what i want to do now is give you a chance to ask any questions that you might have or make any brief comments. we've got c-span here with us so you please wait for the microphone to come over before you speak and please because there are so many of us here tonight, try to keep it brief so everybody gets a chance who wants to say something will get a chance to do so, okay? thank you very much. [applause] >> thank you. thank you. i'm going to start there since the boom is already there. with this gentleman right here. go ahead. >> your book is the first one -- i mean, i've read them all that mentions from the meeting on the 28th when allen doyes briefed kennedy for the first time -- >> i can't hear the question. >> at the end of the memo -- the question will come in a moment. at the end of the memo that