Claude said news reporters were desperate to speak with any soldiers or individuals involved in the armed border crossings into East Berlin. He said Daniel Schorr, reporting for CBS news, was among the many reporters who interviewed him in the hours following their return. When Claude’s duty hours were over for the day, he returned to the MP barracks at Andrews Field; a few days later he had orders to leave Berlin and was stationed with the Sixth Infantry Division serving in Germany. Claude laughed telling this story, and said his fifteen minutes of fame had finally come to an end.

A visitor from Ohio recently found a Confederate belt buckle while walking through The Carter House garden.

The visitor was visiting the recently marked main Federal line of defense and the historic garden. As the visitor began to walk back toward the secondary Federal line, he noticed something covered with loose dirt. Upon inspection, he realized it was a buckle and almost certainly Confederate.

Photos  courtesy of  Ron Goode
Convoy and confrontation at Checkpoint Charlie, West Berlin, October 1961

Deputy Chief Allan Lightner, with stubborn determination, decided he was going to enter East Berlin unchecked, no matter how many times he had to make the trip that evening. Dropping off his wife and picking up his press secretary who was also now on the scene, he headed once more past Checkpoint Charlie, across the white line to the Eastern sector.