Closure of Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie

Title

Closure of Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie

Genre

News report; Interview; Speech

TX Date

22 Jun 1990

Year of production

1990

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Duration

00:03:41

Description

Report on the closure of Checkpoint Charlie in Berlin following the end of the Cold War and looking back at its history. With archive clips of a tense face-off between US tanks and East Berlin forces; former US President John F. Kennedy Berliner quote in 1963; Captain Richard Moore of the Royal Military Police as a family broke through; Corporal Paul Murphy of the Royal Military Police on role today. Berlin correspondent Catherine Field reports. Audio unclear, very muffled.

Contributors

John F. Kennedy; Catherine Field; Richard Moore; Paul Murphy

Keywords

USA; International relations; Germany; Cold War; Security; Germany FR; German DR; East West relations; Berlin; Borders; Border control; Checkpoint Charlie; International tensions

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