{"id":654,"date":"2009-11-09T16:30:24","date_gmt":"2009-11-09T22:30:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/dls\/?p=654"},"modified":"2015-05-22T13:05:31","modified_gmt":"2015-05-22T18:05:31","slug":"witnessing-history-from-100-feet-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/11\/09\/witnessing-history-from-100-feet-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Witnessing history from 100 feet up"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we&#8217;re featuring a reminiscence by Michael Gartner from the Iowa Journalists Oral Histories collection. Gartner&#8217;s long career\u00a0spanned\u00a0a stint as a sports reporter at\u00a0<em>The Des Moines Register<\/em> at age 15 to a position as president of NBC News.\u00a0\u00a0In this clip, he discusses his most memorable experience as a journalist: &#8220;&#8230;NBC was the only network there when the wall came down.\u00a0I was in one of those cherry pickers, up about 100 feet watching the Berlin Wall come down. To me, that was tremendously exciting&#8230;&#8221;<\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/joh-gartner.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-full wp-image-1879\" src=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/files\/2012\/01\/joh-gartner.jpg\" alt=\"joh-gartner\" width=\"216\" height=\"147\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"text-align: center\"><a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/htdocs\/videoplayer\/player3.html?folder=joh&amp;url=bloom_gartner_273.flv&amp;name1=Section_15&amp;start1=5892&amp;stop1=6274\">Michael Gartner interview pt. 15, July 2005: &#8220;Memorable stories&#8221;<\/a><\/p>\n<p>For more interviews, please visit the <a href=\"http:\/\/digital.lib.uiowa.edu\/joh\/\">Iowa Journalists Oral Histories<\/a> home page.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>To mark the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we&#8217;re featuring a reminiscence by Michael Gartner from the Iowa Journalists Oral Histories collection. Gartner&#8217;s long career\u00a0spanned\u00a0a stint as a sports reporter at\u00a0The Des Moines Register at age 15 to a position as president of NBC News.\u00a0\u00a0In this clip, he discusses his most<a class=\"more-link\" href=\"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/2009\/11\/09\/witnessing-history-from-100-feet-up\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">&#8220;Witnessing history from 100 feet up&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":131,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[],"syndication":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/131"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=654"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":4358,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/654\/revisions\/4358"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=654"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=654"},{"taxonomy":"syndication","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/blog.lib.uiowa.edu\/studio\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/syndication?post=654"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}