2009-11-07T12:58:46-05:00https://images.c-span.org/Files/130/289263-m.jpgW.R. Smyser talked about his book Kennedy and the Berlin Wall: A Hell of a Lot Better than a ...

BERLIN — Robert H. Lochner, who as John F. Kennedy’s interpreter helped the president practice his famous 1963 “Ich bin ein Berliner” speech, has died, his family said Monday. He was 84. A journalist ...

A metaphor became concrete 50 years ago. Beginning Aug. 13, 1961, the Iron Curtain became tangible in a wall of precast slabs of concrete along West Berlin's 27-mile border. It came down 22 years ago, ...

When John F. Kennedy visited Berlin in June of 1963, he saw the western side of the city for the first time from the Brandenburg Gate. The image moved him so deeply that he soon after declared his ...

It was 60 years ago this month that President John F. Kennedy delivered his impassioned speech in defense of liberty, freedom and self-government to 1 million citizens in the then-democratic enclave ...

BERLIN (Reuters) - Tears rolled down Marianne Monjau's cheeks as she watched a short film of John F. Kennedy's famous 1963 "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin at a new permanent exhibition to ...

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