On 26 June 1963, President John F. Kennedy gave a speech in support of the citizens of West Berlin after the erection of the Berlin Wall. During that speech, Kennedy proclaimed solidarity with ...

Certain phrases have long been linked to the Berlin Wall as a symbol of the Cold War’s geopolitical divide. One is the imperative that Ronald Reagan addressed to Mikhail Gorbachev at the ...

This is, of course, an absurd fiction. For one thing, JFK would obviously be a Boston Cream donut (not to be confused with a Bavarian), not jelly. For another, nobody in Germany would have taken ...

JFK Library While it is true that a Berliner is a word for jelly donut, it's not a term that was used in the area surrounding Berlin, which preferred the word Pfannkucken. The misconception ...