John F. Kennedy’s famous “Ich bin ein Berliner speech happened here in June of 1963, in front of the Rathaus Schönberg, 6 kilometers away. Rathaus Schöneberg was the city hall of West Berlin prior to the city’s reunification. And the speech started off an 8-hour visit to the city. A makeshift stage was set up right in front of this entrance. A plaque on the front commemorates Kennedy’s speech. And the public square where an estimated 400 thousand West Berliners gathered to hear the speech is nam

TODAY IN HISTORY: On this day in 1963, President John F. Kennedy visited West Berlin, where he delivered his famous speech expressing solidarity with the city's residents, declaring: "Ich bin ein Berliner" (I am a Berliner). https://abcn.ws/2IOlOMS | ABC News

On June 26, 1963, JFK delivered his now-famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech to a crowd of more than 100,000 people at the Rudolph Wilde Platz in West Berlin. He saw West Berlin - controlled by western allies and surrounded by Soviet-controlled Eastern Germany - as an important symbol of freedom in the Cold War, and he encouraged West Berliners to remain hopeful despite the imposing presence of the Berlin Wall. He ended his speech with the words: “All free men, wherever they may live, are citize

55 years ago, on June 26, 1963, President Kennedy delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech in West Berlin. | American Experience | PBS