National Churchill Museum honors 76th anniversary of Churchill's "Iron Curtain" speech

FULTON — The night of March 4, 1946, Winston Churchill was traveling by train to Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri, while marking the final notes of his famed "Iron Curtain" speech.

“The speech that happened here in Fulton, Missouri, at Westminster College 76 years ago continues to have an impact. It changed the geopolitical map. It defined much of the Iron Curtain in much of the last in the 20th Century. This was an extraordinary significant speech, and the ripple effect is with us today," Director and Chief Curator at American's National Churchill Museum Timothy Riley.

March 5, 2022, marks the 76th anniversary of Churchill's Iron Curtain Speech. Riley added that they honor this speech every year, but this year is different because Russia invaded Ukraine.

“I think one of the great words to describe the iron speech back then was prescient. Churchill had a vision. He saw what was coming, and in some ways that happened last week in Ukraine. The warning of Russian aggression has come to pass,” he said.

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