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Francis Gary Powers Jr. to lead screening of Spielberg film "Bridge of Spies"

That began to change when Powers Jr. enrolled as a freshman at California State University Northridge and pledged Sigma Alpha Epsilon. There, one of the members of the fraternity asked him if he was related to the U-2 pilot. Powers decided it was time to confront his ignorance and begin learning about his dad’s life. In doing so, the pattern for his own life began to work itself out. He eventually became the leader of the fraternity and later founded and led the Cold War Museum located at Vint Hill Farms outside Washington It is a part of the Smithsonian. His work allowed him to see his father posthumously awarded the Silver Star and the Prisoner of War Medal.

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