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How a verbal slip triggered the fall of the Berlin Wall
G眉nter Schabowski, the former East German government spokesman whose blunder at a televised news conference in 1989 helped trigger the fall of the Berlin Wall, has died. The 麻豆社's David Shukman was at that conference and talks about how events unfolded.
(Photo Berlin Wall Credit: AFP/Getty)
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