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The battle between NBC and CBS to be the first to film a Berlin Wall tunnel escape

  • Written by Mike Conway, Associate Professor of Journalism, Indiana University
The battle between NBC and CBS to be the first to film a Berlin Wall tunnel escapeNBC Berlin correspondent Piers Anderton inside the tunnel during the network's 1962 escape project.Special Collections & University Archives, University of Maryland, Author provided

When the Berlin Wall was completed in August 1961, East German residents immediately tried to figure out ways to circumvent the barrier and escape into West Berlin.

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