Hearst Metrotone News
U.S. President John F. Kennedy names Moscow as the source of trouble in the Berlin Crisis.
U.S. President John F. Kennedy names Moscow as the source of trouble in the Berlin Crisis.
Bridgeman Arts
US Vice President Lyndon Johnson and General Clay in West Berlin, greeted by cheering crowds, 1961
Lyndon Johnson shakes hands as he walks through dense, enthusiastic West Berlin crowd. Track back presidential car driving down the street in motorcade. More crowds waving (LS) and people clapping (CU). Banners. People in the crowd...
Bridgeman Arts
US Vice President Lyndon Johnson addresses West Berliners and meets with Chancellor of West Germany, Konrad Adenauer.
Overhead long shot of crowd gathered and waving in Berlin. Children holding letters that say Freiheit (liberty). Vice-president Lyndon B. Johnson adresses the West Berlin population on 19th August 1961. Lyndon Johnson gets off the plane...
Hearst Metrotone News
Soldiers erect barbed wire fences to divide East and West Berlin.
Soldiers erect barbed wire fences to divide East and West Berlin.
Bridgeman Arts
Berlin divided, 1961 - Guards at the Berlin Wall, East Berliners look towards West Berlin, properties abandoned.
ECU of barbed-wire on the Berlin Wall. A guard in the background at the Brandenburg gate. A family with children talking to the guards on patrol in the space between East and West Berlin. People standing, waiting on a pavement. LS of the...
Bridgeman Arts
Inhabitants at the Mariensfelde Refugee Transit Camp in Germany, US Vice President Lyndon Johnson visits and greets cheering crowd, 1961
The Mariensfelde Refugee Camp (4 millions have fled East Berlin). Children, families and the elderly receive rations, soup is served. Lyndon Johnson walks through hopeful crowd in Mariensfelde. Leaving the camp from his open-top car, the...
Bridgeman Arts
US soldiers and military equipment arrive in West Berlin, 1961 - crowds cheer and wave
Sunday 20th August. 1500 soldiers and military equipment arrive to join the American troops already in place in West Germany. Soldiers and military cars and tanks arrive in West Berlin, welcomed by crowds and presidents. Soldiers on top...
US National Archives
Nara: American Originals: Kennedy at the Berlin Wall
This National Archives and Records Administration (NARA) site provides background for JFK's speech at the Berlin Wall in 1963, as well as access to sound files with speech excerpts.
US National Archives
National Archives: Berlin, 1961
A 1961 film [37:35] of U.S. military in Berlin.