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50th anniversary of U-2 incident
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John Smith at dhova <[log in to unmask]>
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John Smith at dhova <[log in to unmask]>
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Mon, 15 Mar 2010 07:59:10 -0400
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May 1 will be the 50th anniversary of the downing of the CIA spy plane over Russia.  The pilot, Francis Gary Powers, was a Virginian.  The deputy director of the CIA who was present in 1954 at the White House meeting when Eisenhower authorized the U2 and still held that post in 1960, was also a resident of Virginia.  So this historic event has ties to the Old Dominion.

I just attended a bang-up exhibit and talk by Francis Gary Powers, Jr. (son of the U-2 pilot) at the Virginia Historical Society.

Does anybody know if there is a 50th anniversary conclave anywhere?  There was for the 40th.

Randy Cabell

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