1963. John F. Kennedy à Berlin

In June 1963, John F. Kennedy was the first president of the United States to set foot in Berlin since the end of the Second World War. The fifth and final day of his trip was to be one of the most important days of the American President's political career. At the end of this visit to West Germany, he gave a speech on Rudolph Wilde Square, the former seat of the West Berlin Parliament and the city's governing mayor, in front of 400,000 people and perfectly placed cameras, with this little phrase that would become famous: "ich bin ein Berliner"…
After Kennedy's assassination on November 22 of the same year, the square was renamed John F. Kennedy Square. The cameras, perfectly set up on scaffolding, caught his short sentence for posterity, which became legend: "I am a Berliner". Why this sentence? Who had come up with the line? Why in German? And why this presidential trip to Berlin during the Cold War, almost two years after the Berlin Wall was built?

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