On June 12, 1987, U.S. President Ronald Reagan, during a visit to the divided German city of Berlin, stood before the Brandenburg Gate and exhorted Soviet leader Mikhail S. Gorbachev to “tear down ...

June 12 has long been a date marked by transformative events across the globe, touching on politics, science, culture, and ...

Former Soviet president Mikhail Gorbachev, who met Reagan on a number of occasions ... California and then flown to Washington for a state funeral. His body will then return to California for burial ...

Pres. Ronald Reagan gives the famous Brandenburg Gate speech in West Berlin.

A funeral director at Money & King ... including another famous Reagan line — “Mr. Gorbachev, tear down this wall” — that was part of a 1987 speech drafted by Robinson.

Gorbachev's funeral.Credit...Anna Aleksashina, via Massie family Before Mr. Reagan’s first meeting with the Soviet leader the prior year in Geneva, he had read Ms. Massie’s “Land of the ...

Millions were expected to tune in for the live television broadcast of the national funeral, which began at around 1130 EDT (1530 GMT). Reagan's coffin was brought ... as did the last Soviet leader, ...

More than two years later, Gorbachev allowed the people ... lived president at that time. A state funeral was held in Washington D.C., and Reagan was later buried on the grounds of his ...

The most moving moments, however, are the newsreel shots of Reagan’s funeral, which Thatcher and Gorbachev attended. No screenwriter was able to meddle with that footage.

When Reagan’s son Michael attended his father’s funeral, Gorbachev was sitting right behind him, reported The Guardian. “What I most remember is him telling me that every time my father and him met, ...

Gorbachev died on August 30 at age 91 and his funeral was held in the Pillar Hall ... asking similar questions about Gorbachev. Some Reagan administration officials clearly believed that Gorbachev ...

News of Pelton’s death was posted to the website of a Maryland funeral home ... leader Mikhail Gorbachev applauds during a treaty-signing ceremony with President Ronald Reagan in the White ...