Statue Of Benjamin Franklin Taken Down At Public University Due To Feared Protests

Washburn University, a public university in Topeka, has removed campus statues of Benjamin Franklin and Thomas Jefferson and has offered to return them to the widow of the alumnus who donated them.

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