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mahatmakanejeeves

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Wed Jun 26, 2024, 07:35 AM Jun 2024

On this day, June 26, 1963, President Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner" to a vast crowd in West Berlin.

In retrospect, the picture of the women breaking away from the crowd and running up to his open-top Lincoln Continental to shake hands with him is ominous.

JFK in Berlin sixty years ago today, riding in his open Lincoln Continental through crowds in a city that was a dangerous flashpoint of Cold War:

JFK before saying “Ich bin ein Berliner” to vast crowd in West Berlin, today 1963:







Tue Jun 27, 2023: On June 26, 1963, President Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner" to a vast crowd in West Berlin
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On this day, June 26, 1963, President Kennedy said "Ich bin ein Berliner" to a vast crowd in West Berlin. (Original Post) mahatmakanejeeves Jun 2024 OP
I am a doughnut ... marble falls Jun 2024 #1

marble falls

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1. I am a doughnut ...
Wed Jun 26, 2024, 07:42 AM
Jun 2024


A Krapfen or Berliner is a German jam doughnut with no central hole, made from sweet yeast dough fried in lard or cooking oil, with a jam filling, and usually covered in powdered sugar.
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