The John Glenn Story (1963)
A film biography of Astronaut John Glenn, the first American to orbit the Earth in 1962. It portrays Glenn's youth in New Concord, Ohio, his service as a combat pilot in World War II and the Korean War, and highlights of his momentous adventure as the pilot of Friendship 7 ( This film received the Chris Award, Columbus Film Festival, 1963.
The John Glenn Story, 1963
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Adventures: New Concord OH, Athens OH, Parkersburg, WV
My close friend Mary, and I went touring around parts of Ohio and West Virginia. Along the way we stopped in New Concord, Ohio, and checked out the “S” Bridge and the John and Annie Glenn Museum. We then turned South towards Parkersburg, West Virginia, for lunch and a Sternwheeler ride to Blennerhassett Island State Park. A few house tours, a bit of walking, and a horse-drawn wagon ride later, we headed back to the mainland for a museum visit before heading to Athens, Ohio. Deep dish pizza, a casual tour of Court Street and a stop at the Ridges rounded out our full day of adventuring before heading home.
Glenn Mourned at Museum in Ohio Hometown
(9 Dec 2016) The John and Annie Glenn Museum in John Glenn's eastern Ohio hometown of New Concord has opened to the public in tribute to him.
The museum named for the space hero, who died Thursday, and his wife closed Nov. 1 with the exception of special tours and events, but opened Friday with free admission.
Forty-seven-year-old Char Lyn Grujoski (groo-YOH'-skee) of Connersville, Indiana, was driving home after picking up her daughter in Pittsburgh when she spotted a roadside sign for the museum. They stopped in, and came away impressed with the Glenn memorabilia on display at the museum, which is the astronaut's converted boyhood home.
She calls Glenn a true American hero, someone who loved his country and served it.
According to museum director Debbie Allender, Glenn and his wife, Annie, are just the nicest, kindest people.
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John Glenn Post Office Dedication, 6/16/08 (Part 2 of 2)
John Glenn speaks at the naming-in-his-honor ceremony for the Cambridge, Ohio, post office where he first signed up for military service, starting his aeronautical career, just a few days after Pearl Harbor.
Annie Glenn also appears briefly in this video, as John credits her for keeping him humble and grounded. John and Annie recently had their 65th wedding anniversary. Their remarkably strong and special relationship was quite memorably portrayed in the movie The Right Stuff. There is a very moving YouTube video about Annie here:
The last time I saw John and Annie Glenn, I was a six-year-old boy watching them ride by in his homecoming parade in nearby New Concord, two weeks after his famous first ride into space. In making this video, I was glad to take my eight-year-old son to see and meet John and Annie. It was one of those poignant life-coming-full-circle days. :-)
The story, incidentally, of how my family had known his, long ago, is here:
Celebrating the 50th Anniversary of John Glenn's Historic Space Flight
Sen. Brown on the Senate floor February 15, 2012
Live Coverage of John Glenn Memorial
NASA Television covered The Ohio State University’s public celebration of John Glenn’s life on Dec. 17, at the university’s Mershon Auditorium. The former NASA astronaut and U.S. Senator passed away Dec. 8 at the age of 95. Glenn, a decorated U.S. marine, was the first American to orbit Earth and, much later in life, became the oldest person to travel to space. Glenn was a longtime supporter of Ohio State and its students. He was a University Honors Distinguished Fellow, chaired the college’s board of directors, and was an adjunct professor in both the Department of Political Science and the School of Public Policy and Management.
Ohio: 200 Years
Ohio represents us all. In its dramatic history and astonishing diversity, Ohio closely replicates the vast, complicated, and turbulent place called America. The film offers a snapshot of the state's colorful history along with insights into the Ohio of today: a mix of odd, funny moments and life-changing events.
John Glenn | Wikipedia audio article
This is an audio version of the Wikipedia Article:
00:02:31 1 Early life and education
00:05:06 2 Military career
00:05:16 2.1 World War II
00:09:41 2.2 Korean War
00:13:30 2.3 Test pilot
00:16:16 3 NASA career
00:16:25 3.1 Selection
00:23:55 3.2 iFriendship 7/i flight
00:31:36 4 Political campaigning
00:31:46 4.1 1964 Senate campaign
00:35:49 4.2 1970 Senate campaign
00:38:09 4.3 1974 Senate campaign
00:41:01 4.4 1976 vice-presidential campaign
00:42:26 4.5 1980 Senate campaign
00:44:09 4.6 1984 presidential campaign
00:47:02 4.7 1986 Senate campaign
00:48:33 4.8 1992 Senate campaign
00:49:56 5 Senate career
00:50:05 5.1 Committee on Governmental Affairs
00:54:52 5.2 Other committees and activities
00:57:37 5.3 Keating Five
00:59:39 5.4 Retirement
01:00:12 6 Return to space
01:03:59 7 Personal life
01:05:49 8 Public appearances
01:07:44 9 Illness and death
01:11:03 10 Awards and honors
01:15:55 11 Legacy
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- Socrates
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John Herschel Glenn Jr. (July 18, 1921 – December 8, 2016) was a United States Marine Corps aviator, engineer, astronaut, businessman, and politician. He was the first American to orbit the Earth, circling it three times in 1962. Following his retirement from NASA, he served from 1974 to 1999 as a Democratic United States Senator from Ohio.
Before joining NASA, Glenn was a distinguished fighter pilot in World War II, China and Korea. He shot down three MiG-15s, and was awarded six Distinguished Flying Crosses and eighteen Air Medals. In 1957, he made the first supersonic transcontinental flight across the United States. His on-board camera took the first continuous, panoramic photograph of the United States.
He was one of the Mercury Seven, military test pilots selected in 1959 by NASA as the nation's first astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn flew the Friendship 7 mission, becoming the first American to orbit the Earth, and the fifth person and third American in space. He received the NASA Distinguished Service Medal in 1962, the Congressional Space Medal of Honor in 1978, was inducted into the U.S. Astronaut Hall of Fame in 1990, and received the Presidential Medal of Freedom in 2012.
Glenn resigned from NASA in January 1964. A member of the Democratic Party, Glenn was first elected to the Senate in 1974 and served for 24 years, until January 1999. In 1998, while still a sitting Senator, Glenn flew on the Discovery space shuttle's STS-95 mission, making him the oldest person to fly in space and the only person to fly in both the Mercury and Space Shuttle programs. Glenn, the last surviving member of the Mercury Seven, died at the age of 95 in 2016. He is survived by his wife Annie Glenn, an advocate for people with disabilities and communication disorders.
John Glenn
John Herschel Glenn, Jr. is a retired United States Marine Corps pilot, astronaut, and United States senator. He was a combat aviator in the Marine Corps, and now the only surviving member of the Mercury Seven; the elite U.S. military test pilots selected by NASA to operate the experimental Mercury spacecraft and become the first American astronauts.
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Auburn Coach Wife Kristi Malzahn Agrees with Match & eHarmony: Men are Jerks
My advice is this: Settle! That's right. Don't worry about passion or intense connection. Don't nix a guy based on his annoying habit of yelling Bravo! in movie theaters. Overlook his halitosis or abysmal sense of aesthetics. Because if you want to have the infrastructure in place to have a family, settling is the way to go. Based on my observations, in fact, settling will probably make you happier in the long run, since many of those who marry with great expectations become more disillusioned with each passing year. (It's hard to maintain that level of zing when the conversation morphs into discussions about who's changing the diapers or balancing the checkbook.)
Obviously, I wasn't always an advocate of settling. In fact, it took not settling to make me realize that settling is the better option, and even though settling is a rampant phenomenon, talking about it in a positive light makes people profoundly uncomfortable. Whenever I make the case for settling, people look at me with creased brows of disapproval or frowns of disappointment, the way a child might look at an older sibling who just informed her that Jerry's Kids aren't going to walk, even if you send them money. It's not only politically incorrect to get behind settling, it's downright un-American. Our culture tells us to keep our eyes on the prize (while our mothers, who know better, tell us not to be so picky), and the theme of holding out for true love (whatever that is—look at the divorce rate) permeates our collective mentality.
Even situation comedies, starting in the 1970s with The Mary Tyler Moore Show and going all the way to Friends, feature endearing single women in the dating trenches, and there's supposed to be something romantic and even heroic about their search for true love. Of course, the crucial difference is that, whereas the earlier series begins after Mary has been jilted by her fiancé, the more modern-day Friends opens as Rachel Green leaves her nice-guy orthodontist fiancé at the altar simply because she isn't feeling it. But either way, in episode after episode, as both women continue to be unlucky in love, settling starts to look pretty darn appealing. Mary is supposed to be contentedly independent and fulfilled by her newsroom family, but in fact her life seems lonely. Are we to assume that at the end of the series, Mary, by then in her late 30s, found her soul mate after the lights in the newsroom went out and her work family was disbanded? If her experience was anything like mine or that of my single friends, it's unlikely.
And while Rachel and her supposed soul mate, Ross, finally get together (for the umpteenth time) in the finale of Friends, do we feel confident that she'll be happier with Ross than she would have been had she settled down with Barry, the orthodontist, 10 years earlier? She and Ross have passion but have never had long-term stability, and the fireworks she experiences with him but not with Barry might actually turn out to be a liability, given how many times their relationship has already gone up in flames. It's equally questionable whether Sex and the City's Carrie Bradshaw, who cheated on her kindhearted and generous boyfriend, Aidan, only to end up with the more exciting but self-absorbed Mr. Big, will be better off in the framework of marriage and family. (Some time after the breakup, when Carrie ran into Aidan on the street, he was carrying his infant in a Baby Björn. Can anyone imagine Mr. Big walking around with a Björn?)