Francis Gary Powers, Jr. and Keith Dunnavant, Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2019), 79.
After the U.S.S.R. shot down the U.S.’s U-2 spy plane in 1960, the Soviets were able to recover wreckage of the plane as well as the pictures it took because the plane’s self-destruct mechanism was not powerful enough to destroy the evidence.
Francis Gary Powers, Jr. and Keith Dunnavant, Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy (Amherst, NY: Prometheus Books, 2019), 79.
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Prior to the infamous Iran Hostage Crisis that started November 4, 1979 and lasted 444 days, nine months earlier, on February 14, 1979, U.S. embassy staffers were held hostage for four hours.
Antonio Mendez and Matt Baglio, Argo: How the CIA and Hollywood Pulled Off the Most Audacious Rescue in History (New York: Viking, 2012), 8. People lost the ability to convert gold to U.S. dollars in 1933; foreign governments maintained that right until 1971.
Charles Wheelan, Naked Money: A Revealing Look at What It Is and Why It Matters (New York: W. W. Norton & Company, 2016), 145. After years of failed negotiations, in 1826 Britain agreed to pay over $1 million in reparations for slaves taken out of the U.S. during the American Revolution.
Fred Kaplan, Lincoln and the Abolitionists: John Quincy Adams, Slavery, and the Civil War (New York: HarperCollins, 2017), 123. |
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