Photo of the day From the Stripes archives
March
16, 2006
Red Grandy ©Stars and Stripes
Berlin, March 8,
1961: Former New York Gov. W. Averell
Harriman doffs his hat as he greets reporters at Berlin's Tempelhof Air Base.
At right is West Berlin Mayor Willy Brandt. Harriman, who had taken on a role
as President Kennedy's "roving ambassador," made a whirlwind one-day
visit to the city on on his way to talks with Italian government officials in
Rome.