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Title	Gold Star Mother Speech
Subject	Ohio Government Military Ohio Glenn, John, 1921- Astronauts American Gold Star Mothers, Inc.
Place	Cleveland (Ohio) Cuyahoga County (Ohio) Cambridge (Ohio) Guernsey County (Ohio) New Concord (Ohio) Muskingum County (Ohio)
Description	This page contains John Glenn's handwritten notes for his rebuttal remarks given during a debate with Howard Metzenbaum held at the Cleveland City Club prior to the 1974 Democratic primary election in Ohio. The men were vying for a seat in the U.S. Senate. In his remarks, Glenn responded to a statement made by Metzenbaum that Glenn, who had a long and distinguished military career and gained fame as an astronaut, had never held a real job. Glenn challenged his opponent to look any Gold Star mother in the eye and tell her that her son had no job. The press labeled it Glenn's "Gold Star Mother Speech." American Gold Star Mothers is an organization whose members lost a child while serving in the United States armed forces. Glenn won the 1974 primary against Metzenbaum and was elected to the U.S. Senate in the general election, carrying all 88 counties in Ohio. The speech is one page 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	May 04, 1974
Collection	John Glenn Collection
Source	Unpublished material (archives/manuscripts) RG57/a
Submitting Institution	Ohio State University, John Glenn Archives
Type	Text
Format	manuscripts

Title	Om2000_1911451_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	Om2000_1911451_001.tif
Image Height	5475
Image Width	4221
File Size	5307.553 KB
Full Text	[corresponds to page 1 of John Glenn Gold Star Mother Speech] H.M. Rebuttal [underlined] "Never held job in my life" - 23 yrs. - 2 Wars. - 149 mission - plane 12 AA [underlined] - Space - life on line - not 9-5 job daily [in brackets] time off to take the cash receipts to the bank [end brackets] [crossed out] Go VA hospit - eye - not a job Go any vet proud serve country - eye - not a job Go any Gold Star mother - eye - son " " " [crossed out] Space - Go Ed White, Gus Grissom, Roger Chaffee children - eye - not a job. more dead friends than like to remember Memorial Day - go w/ me Arlington Cemetery - look flags - and you think - and you tell me they did not "have a job" I tell you H. M. - should be on knees every day - thank God [written above] there were some [end above] men who [underlined] "held a job" [end underline] - required dedic to purpose, love of country, dedication duty that was more important than life itself / and their self sacrifice is what has made this nation possible. [underlined] I've held a job.[end underlined]

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