President John Kennedy speaks in West Berlin, June 26, 1963
He is clearly the most popular and charismatic man in the world. More than a million Germans lined President Kennedy’s motorcade route in Cologne when he arrived there a week ago. Twenty million more Europeans watched him on television. And another million greeted him in West Berlin. There, to chants of “Ken-ne-DEE,” he wins over the crowd with a powerful prodemocracy speech. “All free men, wherever they live, are citizens of Berlin,” the president says. “And therefore, as a free man, I take pride in the words, Ich bin ein Berliner.” The crowd goes wild.