FULTON - Towering 13 feet, a new sculpture of Sir Winston Churchill now welcomes visitors to the entrance of the National Churchill Museum at Westminster College.
The 800-pound bas relief sculpture in the plaza outside the museum was unveiled Friday to more than 250 Missourians gathered for the dedication. It was 65 years after Churchill came to Westminster to deliver his famed "Sinews of Peace" address when he warned of the worldwide Communist threat posed by the Soviet Union.
During the dedication ceremony Friday, the same podium used by Churchill at Westminster was moved outside from the museum and used during the dedication. The bas relief of Churchill depicts the exact moment when he uttered the phrase "an iron curtain has descended across the continent."