Russia Shoots Down U.S. Spy Plane
May 10, 1960: A Lockheed engineer says this Soviet photo of the downed U-2 is a fake. |
May 6, 1960: Although the Soviets shot down a U-2 on May 1, the story didn’t appear in The Times until five days later. It’s particularly interesting to note that the paper treated this as a second-day story, even though there was no previous coverage. I suspect this was in response to TV and radio reports, but that’s only a guess. Francis Gary Powers, who formerly piloted the CIA's U-2 spy plane, eyeballs traffic for KGIL-AM in 1973.
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