Closure and removal of Checkpoint Charlie
- Title
- Closure and removal of Checkpoint Charlie
- Genre
- News report; Speech
- TX Date
- 22 Jun 1990
- Year of production
- 1990
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- Duration
- 00:03:31
- Description
- Report on the closure and removal to a museum of Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie, last symbol of the Cold War, with the ceremony attended by foreign ministers of the four allied powers. Includes excerpt of speech by UK Foreign Secretary Douglas Hurd. Catherine Field reports from Berlin.
- Contributors
- Douglas Hurd; Catherine Field
- Keywords
- Germany; Cold War; Ceremonies; Reunification; Berlin; Borders; Border control; Checkpoint Charlie; International tensions
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