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Negotiating their release was no easy task. James Donovan, who you may know from Tom Hanks’ character in the Hollywood blockbuster, Bridge of Spies, was one of the men who negotiated their release, as well as the release of an additional 10,000 prisoners held in Cuban detention. This is his story.
Jun 11, 2020 · It stars Tom Hanks as attorney James Donovan, a man who first defended an accused Russian operative, then negotiated his swap for an American pilot held by the Soviet Union. In 1964, Donovan...
Oct 9, 2015 · The true story behind Bridge of Spies reveals that it took several months of negotiating before James Donovan was sent to meet face to face with the second secretary of the Soviet Embassy, Ivan Schischkin, in East Germany. During those months, Donovan worked with the Department of Justice to set up the prisoner exchange.
Nov 25, 2015 · Just six months after the spy swap at the center of Steven Spielberg’s “Bridge of Spies,” James B. Donovan, the New York lawyer who negotiated that exchange in real life, sat down in Havana...
James Britt Donovan was a noted international negotiator, insurance lawyer and United States Navy officer, best known for securing the release of captured US pilot Francis Gary Powers from Soviet custody. Born into a family of Irish-American, he began his career in New York City as a lawyer.
Nov 27, 2015 · Directed by Steven Spielberg, 'Bridge of Spies' is a dramatic thriller which tells the story of James Donovan (played by Tom Hanks), a Brooklyn insurance claims lawyer who finds himself thrust...
Mar 29, 2016 · How can you defend a foreigner who came to the United States with the likely intent of causing harm to Americans? For attorney James B. Donovan, a 1940 graduate of Harvard Law School, the real question at the height of the Cold War was: How can you not?
