Photo of the day
From the Stripes archives
May 29, 2007


Gene Bane ©Stars and Stripes

Berlin, June 26, 1963: Berliners break through police lines to shake hands with President John F. Kennedy as he rides through the divided city during a visit that became one of the highlights of his presidency. Watching from the car are West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt and West German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. It was during this visit that Kennedy — who would have celebrated his 90th birthday on May 29, 2007 — delivered his famous "Ich bin ein Berliner" speech. 
 
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Past photos of the day

May, 2007
May 28, 2007: Dedication ceremony at a military cemetery in France, 1952
May 27, 2007: Memorial Day at the American military cemetery at Margraten, Netherlands, 1966
May 26, 2007: Ceremony at the grave of Brig. Gen. Theodore Roosevelt, Jr., 1955
May 25, 2007: Church in Berlin's no-man's land, 1980
May 24, 2007: South Korean President Park Chung-hee returns from the U.S., 1968
May 23, 2007: Family receives the 5,000,000th CARE package delivered to Germany, 1949
May 22, 2007: Doing the limbo at a Garmisch discotheque, 1965
May 21, 2007: Graffiti left behind by Russian soldiers at Berlin's Reichstag, 1957
May 20, 2007: Backstage at Jazz at the Philharmonic in Frankfurt, 1956
May 19, 2007: Vice President Hubert Humphrey at Yongsan Garrison, 1967
May 18, 2007: U.S. servicemember as tourist in East Berlin, 1978
May 17, 2007: Loading rockets onto a helicopter in South Vietnam, 1971
May 16, 2007: Britain's Prince Philip visits a Canadian air base in Germany, 1962
May 15, 2007: Singer-composer Isaac Hayes, 1973
May 14, 2007: Flight operations on the USS Forrestal, 1975
May 13, 2007: West German Minister of Economics Ludwig Erhard meets the press, 1958
May 12, 2007: Communist newsmen at the Geneva conference, 1954
May 11, 2007: Singer Jose Feliciano backstage in Frankfurt, 1971
May 10, 2007: Generals Maxwell Taylor and Anthony McAuliffe, 1955
May 9, 2007: Flooded town in the Netherlands, 1953
May 8, 2007: Deadly portion of the Berlin Wall, 1980
May 7, 2007: Dog stands watch over a wounded soldier in Vietnam, 1967
May 6, 2007: Actress Gina Lollobrigida at a photo exhibit in Tokyo, 1974
May 5, 2007: Former New York Gov. W. Averell Harriman arrives in Frankfurt, 1959
May 4, 2007: Gifts for Berlin children are loaded onto an Air Force cargo plane, 1961
May 3, 2007: Massachusetts couple driving 1901 car through Europe, 1960
May 2, 2007: Sophia Loren at the Cannes Film Festival, 1958
May 1, 2007: Truck fire on a highway in Germany, 1965

April, 2007
April 30, 2007: U.N. Emergency Force soldier at the Israeli-Egyptian border, 1958
April 29, 2007: Disc jockey Wolfman Jack in Tokyo, 1976
April 28, 2007: Movie director Howard Hawks, 1948
April 27, 2007: Street scene in Valencia, Spain, 1956
April 26, 2007: Elvis Presley in Germany, 1960
April 25, 2007: Danny Kaye prepares to entertain the troops in Germany, 1948
April 24, 2007: Martina Navratilova plays in the Pan Pacific Open, 1989
April 23, 2007: Patrol in South Vietnam, 1967
April 22, 2007: Ski jumper in the Olympic Games, 1964
April 21, 2007: Oakland A's captain Sal Bando meets another Finley, 1973
April 20, 2007: First day of school in Heidelberg, 1948
April 19, 2007: Guitarist atop the speakers at the Japan Jam, 1979
April 18, 2007: Soldier in Vietnam with mail from home, 1968
April 17, 2007: Crown Prince Akihito arrives at a memorial service for President Kennedy, 1963
April 16, 2007: Redstone rocket fueling exercise, 1962
April 15, 2007: U.S. Air Force's 15th anniversary celebration in Germany, 1962
April 14, 2007: Pole vaulter at the Far East high school track and field meet, 1975
April 13, 2007: Dusting off a sculpture at the Sapporo Snow Festival, 1968
April 12, 2007: The Who onstage at Offenbach, Germany, 1970
April 11, 2007: Boy follows U.S. Army patrol at the Berlin Wall, 1967
April 10, 2007: Baseball fans line up for World Series tickets at Yankee Stadium, 1949
April 9, 2007: Playboy playmate Jo Collins visits the troops in Vietnam, 1966
April 8, 2007: "Gorilla" and captive on a street in Germany, 1992
April 7, 2007: Actress Olivia de Havilland visits a Heidelberg military hospital, 1959
April 6, 2007: Gen. Matthew B. Ridgway takes a bobsled ride at Garmisch, 1953
April 5, 2007: Earvin "Magic" Johnson in the Schweitzer basketball tournament, 1977
April 4, 2007: Berlin Airlift pilots between flights, 1948
April 3, 2007: The Carter Family sings at AFN's Frankfurt studio, 1961
April 2, 2007: USS John F. Kennedy in the Mediterranean, 1969
April 1, 2007: Locals watch a landing exercise in Lebanon, 1958

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