Tonight, we have tremendous honor of hearing one of the most veteran world reporters feels a little silly he has an incredible, incredible record and id like to share of Stephen Kinzers background with you. He joined the New York Times in january of 83 after serving several years as latin american correspondent for the boston globe. From 1983 to 89, stephen was firsttime bureau chief in nicaragua. He covered war and social upheaval in central america. He next spent six years in germany as chief of the New York Times bureau in bonn and in berlin. He covered german unification and events in other parts of europe including wars in the former yugoslavia. In 1996, the New York Times opened a new bureau in istanbul in order to provide readers with insight into turkey, a country which as you well know has become increasingly important in world affairs. Times named Stephen Kinzer as the first Istanbul Bureau chief. Prior to moving, stephen spent four years in istanbul for the New York Times. F
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Those are the words and images that nbc used to open its special report on the night of november 9, 1989. 30 years later, we are remembering that earth and concrete shattering day. We are live from the berlin wall gallery, from the newseum and washington, d. C. It is our home for the next three hours on washington journal on cspan and cspan3. Were asking you to share your own memories. Give us a call and let us know what the fall of the berlin wall meant to you. If you live in eastern or central time zones, the number to call is 202 7488000. Mountain or pacific time zones, 202 7488001. A special phone number for germanamericans this morning that number 202 7488002. If you want to send us a text this morning, that number is 202 7488003. If you do, please include your name and where you are from, and of course you can catch up with us on social media, on twitter at cspanwj, and on facebook. We welcome you to the berlin wall gallery here at the newseum. The largest unaltered portions of t
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My name is and im a past president of the National Press club. We have a terrific program ahead and we invite you to listen, watch or to follow along on twitter. Using the press club live. For our cspan and public radio audiences, please be aware that in the audience are members of the general public. So any applause or reaction here is not necessarily from the working press. We want to show our neutrality and other strategic to and our objectivity. Of dc media strategies. And press club staff liaison, Lindsay Underwood for their roles in making this event happen. And a special thanks, and i do mean special. Headliners team member who is also our photographer tonight and was the organizer of tonights event. Thank you all. Berlin in the 1950s was the spy capital of the world. As a nato power and the soviet union, jockeyed for advantage and postworld war ii europe. Without satellites and sophisticated snooping technology we have now. Spies had to get creative. The stories are epic. Here