[POWERS FRANCIS GARY]: (1929-1977) American Pilot. Powers was shot down on 1st of May 1960 while fly...

[POWERS FRANCIS GARY]: (1929-1977) American Pilot. Powers was shot down on 1st of May 1960 while flying with a CIA U-2 spy plane a reconnaissance mission in Soviet Union airspace. Powers was convicted of espionage and sentenced to ten years. Two years later Powers was exchanged in a spy swap in Berlin during the cold war. Powers died in a helicopter crash. Unusual document, being a letter sent by Gary Powers´ father to the Secretary of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union, T.L.S., Oliver Powers, one page, 4to, Pound, Virginia, 19th May 1960, to Nikita Khrushchev. Powers states `I extend to you and Mrs. Kruschev my regards as one parent to another. Pilot Francis Powers is my only son. I am asking you to be lenient with him in your dealings with him. He has always been a fine young man, and we love him very much. As one father to another, I plead with you to let him come home as soon as you can find it in your heart to do so, so that he may be with us a while longer. Please give him this note from his mother enclosed in this letter.´ An emotional letter of Powers´ father imploring for his son´s life and trying to touch his correspondent as father. Accompanied by a letter of provenance signed by Francis Gary Powers Jr., 11th January 2017, public speaker and authority on the U-2 Incident and Cold War history. With several annotations to the verso in pencil. Overall creasing and staining. FR to G £1500-2000

Steven Spielberg brought this story to screens in the film Bridge of Spies (2015)