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- U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers carried a tiny needle filled with poison so that he could take his own life if he faced capture. Powers chose not to use the needle when he was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, which led some critics to brand him a coward.
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Sep 29, 1976 · Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident: Directed by Delbert Mann. With Lee Majors, Noah Beery Jr., Nehemiah Persoff, Brooke Bundy. The story of Francis Gary Powers, a U-2 pilot for the C.I.A., who was shot down in his spy plane over Russia, captured, and imprisoned.
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In the 1976 telemovie Francis Gary Powers: The True Story of the U-2 Spy Incident, Lee Majors portrayed Powers. In the 1989 song We Didn't Start the Fire by Billy Joel, one of the lines references the U2 based on this event. In 1999, the History Channel aired Mystery of the U2, hosted by Arthur Kent as part of their History Undercover series ...
April 29, 2020. Intelligence and Operations. Fifty-five years ago this May, Francis Gary Powers was piloting a U-2 on a reconnaissance mission for the Central Intelligence Agency when he was shot down over the Soviet Union. This flight was to be the first U-2 flight across the whole of Russia; it turned out to also be the last.
Jan 3, 2016 · Getty Images. By Jason Caffrey. BBC World Service. Steven Spielberg's most recent movie, Bridge of Spies, tells the story of a Cold War prisoner exchange between the Soviet Union and the US. The...
his father, who happened to be famed—or defamed—U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, felled by the explosion of a Soviet SA-2 surface-to-air missile close to his reconnais-sance aircraft on 1 May 1960, launching an international incident. Before delving into Powers’s life story, the authors present in the foreword and introduction some of the key
Nov 9, 2009 · On May 1, that weapon locked onto a U-2 flown by 30-year-old CIA pilot Francis Gary Powers.
Release Date. 1976. Technical Specs. Duration. 2h. TCM Emails. A dramatization of the 1960 "U-2 incident," in which a CIA spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union and its pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was brought to trial. Powers was ultimately returned to the United States in a prisoner swap.
