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Up next, a story about espionage spies, one of the most advanced planes in the world,

and one of the most consequential events of the Cold War. Let's get into the story.

It's the Hall of Column in Moscow, seen of many of previous Russian trial, and now Francis

Gary Powers, pilot of the American U-2 spy plane shot down over Russia, faced the judges with composure.

Now, Abel has been exchanged for U-2 pilot Gary Powers.

His life was possibly at stake.

There's much we could say about Frank Powers.

He was, as Jim Brown indicated, an unlikely man who had to deal with notoriety.

He was a CIA U-2 pilot, flying reconnaissance missions over the Soviet Union and other foreign hostile countries in the 1950s.

In May of 1960, May 1st of 1960, he gets shot down over the Soviet Union.

He's imprisoned by the KGB. He is ultimately exchange for a Soviet spy Rudolph Abel in February of 1962. So he made the history books

because he got caught spying for our country against the Soviets. Well, how do I know the man?

I know the man as dad.

So it was a normal life.

Middle class family, upper middle class family in the San Fernando

Valley of Los Angeles. Mom was a housemaker, raising two kids. Dad was a pilot working for

radio stations at the time. I remember hiking and biking and fishing and being disciplined

and having conversations with him.

He taught me to shoot a 22, but I also was able to fly with him.

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