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1961 - dictator Rafael Trujillo killed - JFK sent Navy to preserve order but no intervention
1962 - Juan Bosch won 60% vote, was genuine reformer, but deposed after 10 months by army coup
1963 - Reid Cabral led rightist government with support of generals and upper class, but was unpopular.
Apr. 24, 1965 - Cabral was deposed by army colonels who wanted to restore
Bosch, but leftist colonels opposed by rightist generals and civil war began
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Apr. 28 - U.S. minister W. Tapley Bennett said 53 communists were leading the revolution to restore Bosch
Apr. 28 - LBJ evening TV speech - said he had ordered in the Marines, need to protect American lives, especially 1000 Americans trapped in the Embajador Hotel
Apr. 29 - LBJ added more troops, to total 22,000 at a cost of $150 million
May 24 - OAS approved the intervention and voted to replace U.S. troops with a hemispheric police force, but was not enthusiastic and was bullied by LBJ
Johnson Doctrine - U.S. would intervene in the Western Hemisphere to prevent a communist threat to any government.
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