[J. R. VanHoose]

Some other famous people from Eastern Kentucky:

Francis Gary Powers - Born in 1929 in Jenkins, KY and raised in Pound, VA. He joined the Air Force in 1950 and was apparently "recruited" by the CIA to join the new U-2 Program. While flying a Top Secret U-2 mission over Russian soil, he was shot down on May 1, 1960 - causing the famous U-2 Crisis of 1960. He died in LA in a tragic TV helicopter crash while working for KNBC on August 1, 1977. He is bureid in Arlington National Cemetery!!!

A man that I do not know much about, but have heard a great deal about, is Homer Robinson of Pike County. He was, according to the sources I have, on the USS Oklahoma during the engagement at Pearl Harbor (December 7, 1941).

Also, from Johnson County was a man named Heber Ward. He won the Congressional Medal of Honor during World War I for singlehandedly capturing 23 German soldiers, after being wounded in both hips!!!!!