Photo of the Day

No. 503

a secret back channel…

American tanks, in the foreground, face off against Soviet tanks on the other side of divided Berlin’s Checkpoint Charlie, Oct. 27, 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 US and …