Iowan Joe Michaud on Patrolling the Berlin Wall

By Lindsey Moon,

Published September 4, 2014 at 3:06 PM CDT

A checkpoint on the Berlin Wall

Joe Michaud was a border guard for the US Army working along the East/West border in Germany starting in 1959.

On New Year’s Eve in 1962, he was airlifted to Berlin and told to patrol the Berlin Wall. He talks with Charity Nebbe about his experience in Germany and describes his book “Along the Iron Curtain: Border Patrol in the Cold War.”

Lindsey Moon

Lindsey Moon served as IPR's Senior Digital Producer - Music and the Executive Producer of IPR Studio One's All Access program. Moon started as a talk show producer with Iowa Public Radio in May of 2014. She came to IPR by way of Illinois Public Media, an NPR/PBS dual licensee in Champaign-Urbana, Illinois, and Wisconsin Public Radio, where she worked as a producer and a general assignment reporter.

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Charity Nebbe

Charity Nebbe is the host of IPR's Talk of Iowa

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