Summary

FORMER SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV GAVE THE COMMENCEMENT SPEECH AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE IN FULTON, MISSOURI TODAY...MORE THAN FORTY FIVE YEARS AFTER WINSTON CHURCHILL SPOKE AT THE SAME LOCATION. GORBACHEV SAID THE WORLD WAS STILL DIVIDED EVEN AFTER GREAT STRIDES OF WORLD UNISON. IN 1946 AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, CHURCHILL WARNED OF THE EAST-WEST CHASM HE CALLED THE "IRON CURTAIN". GORBACHEV STOOD BEFORE A CHUNK OF THE BERLIN WALL, PAINTED RED AND SCRAWLED WITH YELLOW AND BLACK GRAFFITI. BEFORE HE SPOKE, HE WAS PRESENTED AN HONORARY DOCTOR OF LAW.

Source CONUS Archive
Record ID 95843
Story Slug GORBACHEV IN MISSOURI
Location FULTON, MISSOURI
Format PKG
Date 5/6/1992
Archive Time 45:15
TRT :58
Supers LAURIE WATERS, REPORTING
Video Description GORBACHEV ARRIVING / GORBACHEV IN CROWD
Description FORMER SOVIET LEADER MIKHAIL GORBACHEV GAVE THE COMMENCEMENT SPEECH AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE IN FULTON, MISSOURI TODAY...MORE THAN FORTY FIVE YEARS AFTER WINSTON CHURCHILL SPOKE AT THE SAME LOCATION. GORBACHEV SAID THE WORLD WAS STILL DIVIDED EVEN AFTER GREAT STRIDES OF WORLD UNISON. IN 1946 AT WESTMINSTER COLLEGE, CHURCHILL WARNED OF THE EAST-WEST CHASM HE CALLED THE "IRON CURTAIN". GORBACHEV STOOD BEFORE A CHUNK OF THE BERLIN WALL, PAINTED RED AND SCRAWLED WITH YELLOW AND BLACK GRAFFITI. BEFORE HE SPOKE, HE WAS PRESENTED AN HONORARY DOCTOR OF LAW.
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