Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill's Kansas City Connection
Walk past the small courtyard at the corner of Wornall Road and Ward Parkway, and you can’t miss them. The bronze likenesses of Winston Churchill and his beloved wife Clementine have shared a seat there for more than 36 years.
Winston Churchill in Missouri
On March 5, 1946, Winston Churchill delivered one of the most significant speeches of the 20th century on the campus of Westminster College in Fulton, Missouri. The famous "Sinews of Peace" speech, with its reference to Europe's "iron curtain," is still remembered 65 years later. But the trip proved costly for the former British prime minister – on the eve of his speech, Churchill nearly lost his shirt to President Harry S. Truman in a poker game.