A family friend,
Elliott Jacobson, was working for the AP, and assigned to cover the Velvet Revolution happening in Eastern Europe during 1989. He was in West Berlin on November 9th, and couldn't get a flight to Prague, where he was to interview Vaclav Havel. He called into the AP office, where they said something like "Forget Czechoslovakia! The story of the century is happening at your feet!" He ended up having a hand in any of the AP coverage of the Wall falling, and becoming a friend of Vaclav Havel.
I would love to have gotten a piece of the Wall, but such is life.