Kicker: ‘We shall never surrender’

MARY REICHARD, HOST: June 1940, London, the “Never Surrender!” speech by Churchill, not recorded at that time, but recited and recorded by him nine years later:

CHURCHILL: We shall fight in the fields and in the streets, we shall fight in the hills; we shall never surrender.

A speech delivered wearing a special set of false teeth.

Churchill suffered dental problems most of his life, and had several sets of custom teeth made to preserve his natural lisp.

Earlier this month, the gold-mounted upper plate worn for that speech went up for auction. The winning bid: nearly $28,000. More than twice what they expected.

And file this under “hard to believe:” Churchill was born 150 years ago this year!

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