About This Episode
In the summer of 1963, JFK arrived in a divided Germany with the recent construction of the new Berlin Wall nearly two years earlier. President John F. Kennedy spent his entire administration in a “twilight struggle” with the Soviet Union including averting possible total war during the Cuban Missile Crisis in 1962. Historian Tim Naftali takes us from JFK’s Presidential Campaign to his final foreign trip to West Berlin.
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Related Material
Watch President Kennedy’s Speech at Rudolph Wilde Platz in West Berlin
View photos from President Kennedy’s final foreign trip to Germany
Read an archives blog post about the digitization of photos from President Kennedy’s Germany trip
Listen to the special podcast series on the Cuban Missile Crisis, Atomic Gambit
Learn about our guests Tim Naftali and Tom Nichols
Credits
Hosts and Producers: Matt Porter and Jamie Richardson
Supervising Producer: Valerie Linson
Director of Marketing: Rick King
Podcast Art: Brian Kang
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