U-2 Pilot Powers Vindicated in Senate
Mar. 6, 1962 - Senators joined the C.I.A. today in an extraordinary gesture to vindicate the honor of Francis Gary Powers. The U-2 flier, whose capture and trial in the Soviet Union created an international furor in 1960, was absolved by the C.I.A. of any suspicion of dereliction. He appeared before the Senate Armed Services Committee for public testimony. For a man who, 20 months ago, was criticized in Congress and in the country for not killing himself, it was a hero’s rede