Governor Mike Kehoe will travel to mid-Missouri’s Fulton for Friday morning’s opening session for the 80th anniversary of the “Sinews of Peace” commemoration.
British Prime Minister Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech at Westminster College in Fulton on March 5, 1946. National Churchill Museum chief curator Tim Riley spoke on 939 the Eagle’s “Wake Up Missouri”:
“And that speech really changed the course of the 20th and 21st century. It was a sound bite for a century to be sure,” Riley tells listeners.
Riley says the 1946 speech in Fulton drew attention from across the globe:
“Churchill said that alliances, pro-democracy alliances, that work together with strength from a position of power would have great influence in the world,” says Riley.
Missouri Governor Mike Kehoe speaks at this morning’s opening session at 10. An 11:15 am panel discussion will then follow that will include those present at Churchill’s 1946 speech. A 1:30 pm discussion is planned titled “Reagan, Gorbachev and the End of the Cold War.”
You can listen to the full “Wake Up” interview with Curator Riley here.