Life as the son whose story inspired Spielberg's Bridge of Spies

A man in a suit stands on trial, red soviet flags line the walls behind him.

‘I was the kid whose Dad was a spy’: Life as the son of an infamous CIA pilot whose story inspired a Spielberg Cold War drama

While flying a reconnaissance mission during the height of the Cold War, Francis ‘Gary’ Powers’s U-2 spy plane was shot down, his subsequent capture and exchange for a Russian Spy was immortalised in Steven Spielberg’s Bridge of Spies. His son, Gary Powers Jr discusses the conspiracies that still surround his father 60 years on.