Welcome to the second episode of the Sound of History. This episode focuses on West Berlin with two speeches: one from just after the Berlin Wall was built, and one from just before the Berlin Wall came down.

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Timeline

• 00:03 — Theme Music
  Wolverine Blues (excerpt) by Benny Goodman
  January 23, 1928
• 00:46 — Introduction
• 02:06 — A brief history of the Berlin Wall
  Potsdam Agreement
  General Clay
  West Berlin
• 04:24 — John F. Kennedy
  Address to West Berlin [transcript]
  June 26, 1963
• 13:00 — Interlude (Wolverine Blues)
• 13:40 — Introduction to Reagan speech
• 14:00 — Ronald Reagan
  Address to West Berlin [transcript]
  June 12, 1987
• 40:38 — Follow-up to Berlin Wall
• 41:00 — Interlude (Wolverine Blues)
• 41:18 — Closing, request for comments, and preview of next week
• 41:48 — Credits, copyright, and full theme
• 42:33 — End of credits (theme continues)
• 44:43 — End of theme; end of recording

This episode is Copyright (c) 2006 by John Goerzen and is made available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike license.

Miscellaneous

Why Ich bin ein Berliner was indeed grammatically correct:

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