"The Bex Eagle" Statue

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Pershing Park boasts a bronze statue known as the Bex Eagle, unveiled on May 3, 1982. Commissioned by Brian Bex, president of the American Communications Network, Lorenzo E. Ghiglieri created two eagle sculptures for the project. The Portland, Oregon-based artist's design was motivated by Congress passing Senate Joint Resolution 121 in 1981, which commemorated the two-hundredth anniversary of the bald eagle being chosen as America's national symbol. Bex kept one eagle and donated the other to the National Wildlife Federation, who then gifted it to the National Park Service. The Pennsylvania Avenue Development Corporation facilitated its installation in Pershing Park under the park service's authority.