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Title	John Glenn Retirement Speech
Subject	Presidents and Politics Glenn, John, 1921- Astronauts
Place	New Concord (Ohio) Muskingum County (Ohio) Cambridge (Ohio) Guernsey County (Ohio)
Description	In this speech, Senator John Glenn announced his plans to retire from the U.S. Senate at the end of his term of office in 1998. The speech was delivered in his hometown of New Concord, Ohio, on February 20, 1997, the thirty-fifth anniversary of his Friendship 7 space flight. It is 54 pages in length and measures 8.5" x 11" (21.59 x 27.94 cm). John Herschel Glenn was born in Cambridge, Ohio, on July 18, 1921. When he was a child, the family moved to New Concord, Ohio. In March 1941, Glenn left Muskingum College before earning a diploma to participate in World War II. He joined the navy, earned his airman's wings, and transferred to the U.S. Marine Corps. He flew 59 fighter bomber missions in the war, mostly in the Marshall Islands. He remained in the military after World War II and fought in Korea as a combat pilot. During the Korean War, Glenn was famous for low bombing and strafing runs, and he volunteered to participate with the U.S. Air Force in combat north of the Yalu River. In 1954 Glenn won an assignment as a Marine test pilot, and in 1957 he planned and piloted Operation Bullet, a transcontinental flight from California to New York that established a new record for speed. In April 1959, he was selected as one of seven Mercury astronauts. On February 20, 1962, Glenn was launched into space in the Mercury-Atlas 6 Friendship Seven spacecraft after eleven attempts. Glenn orbited the earth three times and successfully landed. After the flight, the celebration included a speech by Glenn to a joint session of Congress and a ticker-tape parade for him in New York City. In 1965 Glenn retired from the Marines as a colonel and developed a business career. He joined Royal Crown Cola, first as a member of the board of directors and later as the president of Royal Crown Cola International. He resigned as an executive officer in 1969, but remained on the board of directors. Turning to politics, Glenn campaigned in 1970 for the U.S. Senate but lost in the Democratic primary to Howard Metzenbaum. In 1974 he won a landslide election to the U.S. Senate. In 1983 he announced his candidacy for president, but later withdrew. Glenn was reelected to the U.S. Senate in 1992 as the first four-term senator from Ohio. On October 29, 1998 John Glenn became the oldest man in space when the shuttle Discovery launched into space with him on board.
Creator	Glenn, John, 1921-
Date of Original	February 20, 1997
Collection	John Glenn Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) RG57/a
Submitting Institution	Ohio State University, John Glenn Archives
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om2002_1912773_001
Rights	For rights and reproduction requests, go to the Ohio Historical Society's Audiovisual and Graphic Reproduction Services page at http://www.ohiohistory.org/resource/audiovis/photodup.html; Online access is provided for research purposes only. For rights and reproduction requests or more information, go to http://www.ohiohistory.org/images/information
File Name	Om2002_1912773_001.tif
Image Height	3264
Image Width	2519
File Size	969.812 KB

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