Francis Gary Powers, Jr.

Thursday May 26, 2022

7:00 PM | Doors at 6:30 PM

Above: Gary Powers, Sr., the U-2 pilot whose plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960.

A Leading Authority on the Cold War as Seen on C_SPAN, the History, Discovery, and A&E Channels

St. John’s Church Foundation is pleased to announce its second 2022 Walter W. Craigie Speaker Series speaker, author and historian Francis Gary Powers, Jr.

Mr. Powers is the Founder and Chairman Emeritus of The Cold War Museum in Warrenton, VA and is an Honorary Board member of The International Spy Museum in Washington, DC. He lectures internationally and appears regularly on C-SPAN, the History, Discovery, and A&E channels.

He is the son of Gary Powers, Sr., the U-2 pilot whose plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960, triggering an international incident during the Cold War. 

He is the author of Letters from a Soviet Prison (2017) and Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy (2019), the latter of which will be the basis for his talk.

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• We encourage masks but they are no longer required.

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