President John F Kennedy’s historic visit to Berlin in 1963 changed the city and its place in history. He said that all free men were citizens of Berlin and made his famous statement ...

For one thing, JFK would obviously be a Boston ... The popular term in Berlin was, and remains, "Pfannkucken;" other places ...

UN General Assembly condemns apartheid in South Africa Berlin Wall is built, dividing East and West Germany American-backed Cuban exiles fail in an attempt to invade Cuba at the Bay of Pigs ...

In August 1961, he decided to build a wall around West Berlin to stop people escaping to there from East Germany. He gambled that the US president, John F Kennedy, would not try to stop him.