Portal:Law/Picture/Week 49 2006

The trial of Francis Gary Powers in Moscow in August, 1960. Powers, the pilot of an American spy plane shot down over the Soviet Union, pleaded guilty and was convicted of espionage on August 19. He was sentenced to 3 years' imprisonment and 7 years of hard labor, but was exchanged for Soviet agent Rudolf Abel on the Glienicke Bridge in Potsdam, Germany on February 10, 1962.