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All entities must do if they are going to put you at war with them. and that is to dehumanize the other side. i suddenly saw this man as a human. >> the trip went well. there was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then on may 1, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers was shot down in the u-2. and that pretty much puts a halt to that relationship, it seemed, that your grandfather was building with khrushchev. ...

If they are going to put you at war with them. and that is to dehumanize the other side. i suddenly saw this man as a human. >> the trip went well. there was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then on may 1, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers was shot down in the u-2. and that pretty much puts a halt to that relationship, it seemed, that your grandfather was building with khrushchev. >> yeah. what the u-2...

If they are going to put you at war with them. and that is to dehumanize the other side. i suddenly saw this man as a human. >> the trip went well. there was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then on may 1, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers was shot down in the u-2. and that pretty much puts a halt to that relationship, it seemed, that your grandfather was building with khrushchev. >> yeah. what the u-2...

There was talk of eisenhower visiting moscow the following year. but then, on may 1st, 1960, the soviet union shot down an american spy plane over one of their missile sites. >> gary powers is shot down, and that pretty much puts a halt to this relationship, it seemed like your grandfather was building. >> what this allowed him to do, or forced him to do, was to really think hard about how much the soviets really wanted at that point. >> your grandfather didnt apologize. >> thats right. in the s...

Reaction of events. were no longer in a bipolar world the way we were when, say, korean airliner 007 was shot down by the soviets in 1983. or when frances gary powers, the u-2 pilot flying an american spy aircraft was shot down by the soviets in 1960. in those cases, if you got the president of the united states and the secretary general of the soviet union on the phone, they could at least begin to ratchet things down. this is such a multidimensional situation that it is emblematic of the post-...

Public exhibition. to the soviet union, this wreckage was a national cause. national outrage over the violation of soviet boundaries. >> and so, out comes the cover story. >> the department has been informed by the nasa, a u-2 weather research plane piloted by a civilian has been missing since may 1. >> eisenhower had said, no, that didnt happen, et cetera, et cetera. he had been drawn into a trap by khrushchev. >> the soviet later able to show not only shot down the plane, but they had the pilo...

>> the department has been informed by the nasa. a u-2 weather research plane piloted by a civilian has been missing since may 1. >> eisenhower had said, no, that didnt happen, et cetera, et cetera. he had been drawn into a trap. >> the soviet later able to show not only shot down the plane but they had the pilot. >> gary powers, ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances and in a way magnified by them. >> i realize that i have committed a grave crime and i realize that i must be puni...

Story. >> the department has been informed by the nasa. a u-2 weather research plane piloted by a civilian has been missing since may 1. >> eisenhower had said, no, that didnt happen, et cetera, et cetera. he had been drawn into a trap. >> the soviet later able to show not only shot down the plane but they had the pilot. >> gary powers, ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances and in a way magnified by them. >> i realize that i have committed a grave crime and i realize that i must ...

To the soviet union, this wreckage was a national cause. national outrage over the violation of soviet boundaries. >> and so, out comes the cover story. >> the department has been informed by the nasa. a u-2 weather research plane piloted by a civilian has been missing since may 1. >> eisenhower had said, no, that didnt happen, et cetera, et cetera. he had been drawn into a trap. by >> the soviet later able to show not only shot down the plane but they had the pilot. >> gary powers, ordinary man...

Story. >> the department has been informed by the nasa. a u-2 weather research plane piloted by a civilian has been missing since may 1. >> eisenhower had said, no, that didnt happen, et cetera, et cetera. he had been drawn into a trap. >> the soviet later able to show not only shot down the plane but they had the pilot. >> gary powers, ordinary man caught up in extraordinary circumstances and in a way magnified by them. >> i realize that i have committed a grave crime and i realize that i must ...