Enjoy the online events hosted by our partner organization, the Alaska World Affairs Council in Anchorage. AWAC hosts a variety of engaging speakers on a wide variety of important topics.
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JWAC's 2025-2026 Season #43:
(Events are added all year, so check back often.)
-Date and time details are determined as events approach, and events are added to the schedule throughout the season. Check back often for new information, and be sure to join our e-mail notifications list to receive regular updates. You can also sometimes find information repeated on Facebook.
-This page is the primary repository of JWAC event information. If you can't find what you're looking for here, then it simply doesn't exist yet.
-All JWAC presentations are free and open to all to attend as an audience member. Please arrive a few minutes early. Posted event times are when presentations start.
-JWAC does not stream presentations. They are instead professionally recorded at Juneau's public media station for later broadcast on Alaska public television, and also posted on YouTube (see season archives for links). All event postings include location information in their headers. Most often, Travelogues take place at the Gold Town Theater, and speaker presentations and Forums at KTOO Studio 1.
-Every person involved with JWAC is a volunteer. These events are a gift to our community.
Next event:
'Spy Pilot: Francis Gary Powers, the U-2 Incident, and a Controversial Cold War Legacy' with Francis Gary Powers Jr.
Thursday, June 25 | 5:15 | KTOO Studio 1
Francis Gary Powers Jr. is an author, historian, and international speaker who appears frequently on major history and news networks. He is the son of CIA U-2 pilot Francis Gary Powers, whose 1960 shootdown over the Soviet Union sparked a major Cold War international incident. Gary is the Founder and Chairman of The Cold War Museum and the author of Letters from a Soviet Prison, Spy Pilot, and Enemy Territory - works that help correct longstanding misinformation and fake news about the U-2 Incident and his father. As Chairman of the Presidential Advisory Committee for Cold War Themed Study, Gary worked with the National Park Service and leading Cold War historians to identify Cold War historic sites for preservation. In 2014, he consulted on Steven Spielberg’s Cold War thriller, Bridge of Spies about the 1962 exchange of his father for Soviet KGB spy Rudolph Abel.
Gary's program aims to set the record straight in regards to the fake news that surrounded the U-2 Incident and tarnished his father's reputation. It gives an overview of what it was like to grow up in the shadow of a famous Cold War figure, his search for the truth after his father's 1977 death in a helicopter crash, and how his research led to the USAF and CIA posthumously awarding his father the POW Medal / CIA Director’s Medal, and Silver Star, in 2000 and 2012 respectively. During his talk he will discuss the Cold War, the U-2 Incident, and what it was like to be a consultant for a Spielberg movie. A book signing will follow.
[All JWAC speaker events are free and open to all]
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