Obama's Berlin Speech... "and the crowd of 200,000 .."
There were not 200,000 people at the Berlin speech. There was much video (including aerial views) on German TV. At best analysis, perhaps 75 - 79,000. The close up pictures of the crowd, usually seen, in front of Obama did not include the shots to the immediate right and left (in the circle) where the crowd instantly dissapeaed around the street venders. And, there were big gaps down the blvd., where the large TV screens were placed.
The national media should be ashamed of continuing to push a number which has no basis. And Newsweek should stop pushing the lie.
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Historic speeches by visiting American presidents have left an outsize footprint on Berlin.
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John F. Kennedy told the crowd that he, too, was a Berliner.
Nov 3, 2009
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Five American presidents delivered addresses at the Berlin Wall and, 20 years after its fall, the city is still considered a prime venue for American presidents to deliver important speeches.
Berlin was once a battleground of Cold War ideologies, and even after the fall of the wall, phrases like "Ich bin ein Berliner" and "Tear down this wall" still resound there. Following are excerpts from the most crucial speeches given in Berlin during the past half-century—and why they were so important.
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