Cold War Crisis: The U-2 Incident (Visit www.coldwar.org)

Charles Fishburne produced this video about "Cold War Crisis: The U-2 Incident," an exhibition organized by The Cold War Museum and now on display at the Virginia Historical Society. Visit www.coldwar.org.

About the exhibition:
On May 1, 1960, an American U-2 reconnaissance plane was shot down over the Soviet Union by a surface-to-air missile. Francis Gary Powers—a civilian pilot flying for the Central Intelligence Agency—was unable to activate the self-destruct mechanism and the plane crashed largely intact. News of the event caused Premier Khrushchev to storm out of a summit conference in Paris with President Eisenhower. Because the U-2 was specifically designed for covert surveillance, Powers, a native Virginian, was tried and convicted as a spy and sentenced to ten years imprisonment. In 1962 he was exchanged in Germany for a Soviet agent. On display through May 30, 2010.

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