ten commandments
A civil rights watchdog calls him the "Ayatollah of Alabama" for a reason.
Workers removing the monument were protected by a heavy security presence.
In June, the state Supreme Court ordered it removed, but Republican lawmakers resisted.
The statue has been at Connellsville Area Junior High School since the 1950s.
WHAT'S HAPPENING
Oklahoma's Supreme Court on Monday said the state must remove a Ten Commandments stone monument first placed at its Capitol in 2012, rejecting an appeal to reconsider an earlier decision.
Watching Paramount's The Ten Commandments is, for many, an annual part of the spring holidays. While there have been other film versions of the story of the exodus, none have the epic staying power of the 1956 classic.