Trial of American intelligence officer F.G. Powers in Moscow

USSR. Moscow. Chairman of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR Viktor Valeryanovich Borisoglebsky (center, background) during the announcement of the verdict in the Column Hall of the House of Unions at an open court session of the Military Collegium of the Supreme Court of the USSR in the case of American pilot Francis Harry Powers, accused of espionage against the USSR. The Lockheed U-2 reconnaissance aircraft piloted by G. F. Powers was shot down by Soviet air defense on May 1, 1960 over Sverdlovsk. Vladimir Savostyanov/TASS