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https://www.esuus.org/kansascity/wp-content/uploads/sites/5/2026/09/iron-curtain-to-fallen-wall.jpg1000640Experience the remarkable story behind the Berlin Wall through the words of the man who first warned the world it was coming. In this richly illustrated lecture, Timothy Riley, the Sandra L. and Monroe E. Trout Director and Chief Curator of America’s National Churchill Museum, explores the direct connection between Winston Churchill’s historic 1946 “Iron Curtain” speech in nearby Fulton, Missouri, and the Berlin Wall now on display in Union Station’s Berlin Wall – A World Divided exhibition. Featuring powerful images, compelling stories, and fascinating historical insights, the lecture follows the Cold War from Churchill’s prophetic warning to the dramatic fall of the Berlin Wall in 1989. Discover how a speech delivered just 100 miles from Kansas City helped define one of the twentieth century’s greatest global struggles and why the Wall standing at Union Station remains one of history’s most enduring symbols of the triumph of freedom over tyranny.