US-Soviet Standoff at Checkpoint Charlie,1961
On the night of October 27, 1961, CBS News reporter Daniel Schorr stood at Checkpoint Charlie, in the divided city of Berlin, and warned his radio audience of the threat of war between the U.S. and the Soviet Union:
“The Cold War took on a new dimension tonight when American and Russian fighting men stood arrayed against each other for the first time in …
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