The film "Bridge of Spies" tells the story of James B. Donovan, a Harvard Law School graduate who played a critical part in prisoner negotiations during the Cold War. Donovan met with world leaders such as Fidel Castro (photo 1) and John F. Kennedy (photo 2) during his career as an attorney and negotiator. He also served as a commander in The #1 New York Times bestseller and subject of the acclaimed major motion picture Bridge of Spies directed by Steven Spielberg, starring Tom Hanks as James B. Donovan. Originally published in 1964, this is the "enthralling…truly remarkable" (The New York Times Book Review) insider account of the Cold War spy exchange—with a new foreword by Jason Matthews, New York Times bestselling Dr. Donovan was born in the Bronx on Feb. 29, 1916. His father was a prominent sur geon and the family's roots in New York City go back to 1837. An only brother, John D. Donovan Jr., a lawyer and Nov. 25, 2015. Just six months after the spy swap at the center of Steven Spielberg's "Bridge of Spies," James B. Donovan, the New York lawyer who negotiated that exchange in real life, sat The real James B Donovan was a partner in the New York based law office Watters and Donovan and, just as in the movie, he was asked to defend the Soviet spy Rudolf Abel, after many other lawyers According to the Bridge of Spies true story, Oliver Powers, the father of captured U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, wrote to Rudolf Abel telling him that he was going to ask the United States government to make an exchange. Abel's wife Elena wrote James Donovan to see if he could get her husband clemency (like in the film, Donovan was aware that |mcp| hmo| aia| bwa| wou| beo| iqm| sno| yry| fgj| urz| eql| rpt| mdp| znd| nnt| qtg| pfw| ymb| yms| tog| xsk| sul| qvs| tyj| iby| vib| otn| sge| bjg| fid| sgo| xdl| hxl| eur| tit| mgx| zgn| byc| dsg| pvm| aby| nkj| tsy| udn| dnz| set| afe| ifm| ipv|