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.

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Complete transcript available at the Kennedy Presidential Library.[1]

• 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#External_links. 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 [2]:

This text is the version published in the Public Papers of the Presidents: John F. Kennedy, 1963. Both this text and the audio version of this speech ommit the words of the German translator. This audio file was edited by the White House Signal Agency shortly after the speech was recorded. The White House Signal Agency was charged with recording only the words of the President. The Kennedy Library has an audiotape of a network broadcast of the full speech, with the translator's words, and a journalist's commentary. Because of copyright restrictions it is only available for listening at the Library for reasons of private study and scholarship.

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'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)

Promoted Jfk berlin address high.ogg --MZMcBride (talk) 16:09, 15 August 2008 (UTC)