President John F. Kennedy Visit to Germany, 1963 155
A child in the jubilant crowd during the visit to Germany by U.S. President John F. Kennedy in June 1963.
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During U.S. President John F. Kennedy’s visit to Germany in June 1963, hundreds of thousands of people lined the streets and squares of the visited cities. The photograph shows a child among the crowd of spectators and conveys the broad public participation that Kennedy’s visit to the Federal Republic and West Berlin aroused. The visit took place in the context of the Cold War and the construction of the wall in 1961 and held strong symbolic significance for the population of West Germany.
