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Living in a prison-like state, governed at every step of their life by the east german government. >> tom did not have a prompter. tom did not have a script. he just had the entire history of the 20th century in his head. and it all came out that night. >> some time after midnight at the berlin wall, one of our computer technicians, ed lee, came running up wide-eyed and he handed me a big chunk of the berlin wall. and he said they were taking it down right before our eyes. so i keep a small kind of iconic piece of it on my desk constantly. i think it represents the shattering of the divisions ...

Living in a prison-like state, governed at every step of their life by the east german government. >> tom did not have a prompter. tom did not have a script. he just had the entire history of the 20th century in his head. and it all came out that night. >> some time after midnight at the berlin wall, one of our computer technicians, ed lee, came running up wide-eyed and he handed me a big chunk of the berlin wall. and he said they were taking it down right before our eyes. so i keep a small kind of iconic piece of it on my desk constantly. i think it represents the shattering of the divisions ...

Old astronaut's line that they had right before liftoff was don't screw up. >> nbc nightly news with tom brokaw. tonight, from west berlin. >> good evening, live from the berlin wall, on the most historic night in this wall's history. what you see behind me -- >> i remember being in the control room, watching this thing. can i brielieve what i'm seeing? there was tom, saying this was happening. this is stunning. this is just a stunning phenomenon. >> what we were seeing was the destruction of what we had all grown up with in the 20th correct century. >> on the other side of the wall, young eas...