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Francis Gary Powers (August 17, 1929 – August 1, 1977) was an American pilot who served as a United States Air Force officer and a CIA employee. Powers is best known for his involvement in the 1960 U-2 incident, when he was shot down while flying a secret CIA spying mission over the Soviet Union.
The U-2 airplane incident Archived 25 July 2020 at the Wayback Machine, according to the U.S. Department of State, Office of the Historian; 1962 Russia frees US spy plane pilot; The U-2 Spy Plane Incident – slideshow by Life magazine; Eisenhower's speech addressing the U-2 incident "The CIA and the U-2 Program" (1998).
James Britt Donovan (February 29, 1916 – January 19, 1970) [2] [3] was an American lawyer and United States Navy officer in the Office of Scientific Research and Development and the Office of Strategic Services (OSS, predecessor of the Central Intelligence Agency), ultimately becoming General Counsel of the OSS, and an international diplomatic negotiator.
The old Frankfort prison was among its victims. [8] The flood made the prison uninhabitable. The State had appropriated funds the previous year (1936) for the building of a new prison to ease the overcrowding. No one predicted a flood would hasten the process.
The Correctional Association of New York, an independent prison watchdog in the state, called the fatal incident a “vicious assault” and cited its July 2023 report finding that 70 percent of ...
The prison is located in the Town of Beekman in Dutchess County. [2] The New York State Department of Corrections and Community Supervision lists the address as Route 216, Stormville, New York 12582. This prison housed New York's execution chamber during the time the state briefly had the death penalty (but never used it) in the post-Furman era.
According to City Journal, this incident is the 11th subway murder this year — the worst of this century. Simon Martial was the deranged man who pushed Michelle Go in front of the train, killing ...
He says his father’s killing was a wrongful death in federal prison. He’s seeking $5 million in damages, court documents say. Fort Leavenworth officials are also being sued.