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MOSCOW - Fifty years ago Saturday, U.S. pilot Francis Gary Powers was shot down while flying a U-2 spy plane over the Soviet Union, a dramatic episode of the Cold War that pushed the rival superpowers closer to confrontation. "In order to understand the world today, you must understand how we got here, and we got here through the Cold War," the pilot's 44-year-old son, Francis Gary Powers Jr., said Friday. "And then we have to understand how this period of time developed and expanded and how close we came to nuclear war.

Facebook page and video for Cold War Sci-Fi Project

"The son of the founder of The Hollywood Reporter is apologizing for the trade paper's role in what he calls "Hollywood's holocaust," the blacklist that destroyed the careers of those accused of communist sympathies. In an article published Monday by the trade paper, W.R. Wilkerson III wrote that the 1947 Blacklist "silenced the careers of some of the studios' greatest talent and ruined countless others merely standing on the sidelines.""

An NY Times analysis of the original movie just prior to the 2008 version coming out.