JFK in Berlin

Don't Know Much About HistoryIt was one of the most famous sentences spoken during the Cold War.

"Ich bin ein Berliner." ("I am a Berliner.")

John F. Kennedy spoke those words on June 26, 1963, to an enormous crowd in a Berlin divided by the Cold War.

Here is a link to the New York Times account of the speech: http://www.nytimes.com/learning/general/onthisday/big/0626.html#article

With the end of World War II in 1945,  the city of Berlin was divided between Communist east and democratic west. For years it served as a tense symb

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Published on June 26, 2009 12:22
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