Sixty-eight years ago next week, Baxter Brown Watson was a witness to history.
Watson was a student at Westminster College on March 5, 1946, when Winston Churchill delivered his “Iron Curtain” speech there. Watson not only saw the speech — he was given the honor of accompanying Churchill and President Harry S Truman to the campus gymnasium where the former prime minister delivered his address.
Watson, now 90, also snapped a photo of the two leaders as they stood on the university president’s porch, which he describes as one of his proudest moments.
