Transcript The Gary Powers Incident - Mr. Sakellarion's Weblog

The Gary Powers Incident
By Peter Scott, Nick Casco, and
Corey Stepp
Table of Contents
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The Flight
The Crash
The Capture
The Result
Works Cited
Picture and Video Credits
The End
The Flight
• Operation “Grand Slam”
• May 1st, 1960 (“May Day”
holiday in
Russia)
• Based from Peshawar,
Pakistan
• Intended to take photos
of Soviet military bases
• Supposed to land in
Bodo, Norway
The Flight
• Soviets were on high alert
• Powers was able to take pictures of some
nuclear facilities
• Soviet fighter jets tried to intercept
• Brought down by a brand-new SAM
system near Yekaterinburg
The Crash
S-75 Dvina Missile system:
Maximum range of 65,000 feet
Lockheed U-2 Spy Plane:
Maximum service ceiling of 70,000 feet
• The Missile reportedly destroyed a Soviet fighter jet behind the
U2, causing the fragile U2’s wings to tear off
• When Powers landed, he was immediately captured but did not
try to use a special silver dollar with a built-in poison needle on
himself or his captors
The Crash
• The CIA tried to cover up the crash, and the
Soviets didn’t release details about the incident
itself. There is thus little public info on the flight
and crash of the U2
The Capture
American Government thought Powers had
died in the crash.
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Shows American news coverage of the announcement of Powers survival
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Eaf6cydnJG0
The Capture
• Sentenced to 10 years in prison for
espionage
• Audio clip from trial in Moscow:
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http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/AudioDetailsPage/AudioDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Audio&disableHighlighting=false&prod
Id=UHIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE|EJ2250036508&mode=view
The Result
• The Vienna summit was canceled
• The wreckage of the plane was shown in a
museum in Moscow
– http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zm0RkOnT
pvw
Works Cited
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http://www.americanheritage.com/content/day-we-shot-down-u-2
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http://web.archive.org/web/20060713154414/http://www.cia.gov/csi/studies/winter98_99/art02.html
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http://ic.galegroup.com/ic/uhic/ReferenceDetailsPage/ReferenceDetailsWindow?displayGroupName=Reference&d
isableHighlighting=false&prodId=UHIC&action=e&windowstate=normal&catId=&documentId=GALE|K3436600473
&mode=view
Picture and Video Credits
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Usaf.u2.750pix.jpg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:Sa-2camo.jpg
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http://www.nwhm.org/media/category/exhibits/spies/u2%20spy%20plane%20incident
%20newspaper%20clipping.jpg
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http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:U2_GrandSlam.png
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http://www.aerospaceweb.org/question/history/u2/gary-powers.jpg
The End!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
• Special thanks to:
Nick
Peter
Corey
Leonidas Sakellarion
My Little Pony
Microsoft PowerPoint 2003
Muffins and Pie
Berthiaume’s Mom
Google Earth
The stupid Soviet Officer who couldn’t hit an airplane
with a freakin’ SAM
The stupid CIA for covering up details and making it
impossible for us to find any freakin’ data on the flight
and crash