National Public Radio
June 15, 2012 When an experimental U.S. spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, the US government quickly came up with elaborate cover stories...The US assumed that no pilot could survive a crash from a plane that flew at 70,000 feet...
Fox
Francis Gary Powers is being posthumously awarded the Silver Star at the Pentagon for his loyalty while being held captive by the Soviet Union in the 1960s...His U-2 airplane was shot down in 1960, and for more than 100 days, he was held in a Soviet...