Wikipedia:Featured sound candidates/Ich bin ein Berliner

Ich bin ein Berliner
President John F. Kennedy's famous speech from the Berlin Wall, another landmark from the Cold War. Complete speech.


 * Berlin Wall
 * Ich bin ein Berliner
 * John F. Kennedy

Complete transcript available at the Kennedy Presidential Library.


 * Nominate and support. - Durova Charge! 23:11, 12 July 2008 (UTC)
 * Could you put the transcript on WikiSource and add a link to the Ich bin ein Berliner article on the description page. Zginder 2008-07-13T01:01Z (UTC)
 * That's been up for a long time; please see Ich_bin_ein_Berliner. Durova Charge! 01:22, 13 July 2008 (UTC)
 * what is up with the recording around the end Kennedy's four paragraph? Zginder 2008-07-14T21:55Z (UTC)

There are indeed some sound artifacts in the recording. The reason for this is that we do not have the complete recording of the Kennedy speech in this recording. We are missing about half of it; most of the German translation is missing, and some of the English. The "cuts" in the original audio file introduced a variety of clicks and other strange sounds. This is not the fault of Wikipedia editors, since this edited version is the only public domain version that is available. From the Kennedy Library website :

Of course, filters could be created to reduce the size of these clicks and other audio discontinuities, at the cost of actually obscuring some of the information content. In particular, it is important to note that about half of this speech is missing. The clicks and other audio artifacts are a reminder of that, and are of historic interest. --Filll (talk | wpc ) 22:27, 30 July 2008 (UTC)


 * Support—Notable historical recording. Tony   (talk)  13:53, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support Hey, why not? It's pretty good, and we aren't going to get better. Shoemaker&#39;s Holiday (talk) 14:34, 13 August 2008 (UTC)
 * Support: It's notable and encyclopedic - if a bit jumpy due the the cutting of translations.  If we get something less jumpy, strong support that ...... Dendodge  .. Talk Contribs 11:01, 14 August 2008 (UTC)



--MZMcBride (talk) 16:09, 15 August 2008 (UTC)