Francis
Gary Powers, an Air Force test pilot, was born on
October 17, 1929, in Jenkins, Kentucky. In May of
1960, Powers was shot down while piloting the Lockheed
U-2 spy plane over the Ural Mountains in the Soviet
Union. On August 19, 1960, Francis Gary Powers was
sentenced to ten years "deprivation of liberty"
by a three-man Russian military tribunal on charges
of spying against the Soviet Union. The United States
exchanged convicted Soviet spy Colonel Rudolf Ivanovich
Abel for Powers in 1962.
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