Main Street in Jenkins
This file appears in: Pilot – Spy - Hero
This early 20th century photograph shows Main Street in Jenkins, Kentucky, where Francis Gary Powers was born. Courtesy of the Kentucky Historical Society.
This file appears in: Pilot – Spy - Hero
Pilot – Spy - Hero
Historical Marker #1732 in Whitesburg notes the Cold War U-2 spy incident involving Letcher County native Francis Gary Powers.
Powers was born in Jenkins, Kentucky, on August 17, 1929. He graduated from Milligan College in Tennessee in 1950. …