Ich bin ein Berliner

Twenty-two months after East Germany put up the Berlin Wall, John F. Kennedy stood on the steps of Rathaus Schöneberg in West Berlin on June 26, 1963, before a crowd estimated at 120,000. The film is essential because the crowd is half the story: listen to the roar at "Lasst sie nach Berlin kommen," "let them come to Berlin," aimed at anyone who claimed the West could work with the Communists. It also settles an old myth. The famous line was acceptable German, and the laughter came from Kennedy's joke about his interpreter, not from anyone hearing "I am a jelly doughnut."