William Joseph Thompson
John Leon
Ohio Outdoor Sculpture Inventory
Made: 1964
""The life of the arts, far from being an interruption, a distraction, in thelife of a nation, is very close to the center of a nation's purpose - and is a test of the quality of a nation's civilization." John F. Kennedy"
Statue commemorating
President John F. Kennedy (1917-1963)
and the eternal flame.
300 College Park, Dayton, OH 45469
Dayton, Ohio 45469
Montgomery County
Original sculpture of cement and marble
by Bill Thompson, 1964.
Recasting in bronze by John Leon, 1998.
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