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Witnessing history from 100 feet up

To mark the 20-year anniversary of the fall of the Berlin Wall, we’re featuring a reminiscence by Michael Gartner from the Iowa Journalists Oral Histories collection. Gartner’s long career spanned a stint as a sports reporter at The Des Moines Register at age 15 to a position as president of NBC News.  In this clip, he discusses his most memorable experience as a journalist: “…NBC was the only network there when the wall came down. I was in one of those cherry pickers, up about 100 feet watching the Berlin Wall come down. To me, that was tremendously exciting…”

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Michael Gartner interview pt. 15, July 2005: “Memorable stories”

For more interviews, please visit the Iowa Journalists Oral Histories home page.