‘Bridge of Spies’ screening has guest speaker July 19

The July Living History Film Series event for 2018 will feature the 2015 thriller “Bridge of Spies” and guest speaker Francis Gary Powers Jr. July 19 at 6:30 p.m. at the Air Force Museum Theatre, located inside the National Museum of the U.S. Air Force.

Tickets are $12 or $10 for Friends members and military and can be purchased by going online to https://www.afmuseum.com/livinghistory. Doors open at 6 p.m.

“Bridge of Spies” stars Tom Hanks in the story of lawyer James B. Donovan (Hanks), who is entrusted with negotiating the release of Francis Gary Powers Sr., whose U-2 spy plane was shot down over the Soviet Union in 1960 in exchange for Rudolf Abel, a convicted Soviet KGB spy whom he represented at trial. Powers Jr. will discuss the true story behind the film and his father.

For more information, call 937-253-4629.

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