i'd like to ask both of you, what it was john glen like, kathryn? >> you, know the man i read about in life magazine and watched on television as a youngster was a feat and cello caricature of them and that really was he. was richer and better than anything that came through in the magazines. he was that confident and he was that passionate and he was that day to get, he was that patriotic. but all of that came in a fabulous package of just really caring humanity that was just extended so generously, too i think, everyone who came into contact with. >> david. yeah, i think that john flynn was in person on a daily basis every day, every hour, was the same person that came across on television. there was no pretense, there was no attempt to sell something or a part of me that did not exist. there was no attempt to sell that part of john cullen. and he was -- i would have to describe him as authentic. he was an authentic individual. he was authentic from the time when he grew up in rural idaho i owe a, small little town. his father used to take enough

. >> born on july 18th 1921, john glen was a decorated u.s. marine aviator, an astronaut, the first american to orbit the earth and much later in life, the oldest person to travel to space. he represented ohio in the u.s. senate from 1974 to 1997. senator glen died on december 8th, 2016 at the age of 95. up next on american history tv, the national air and space museum remembers drawn glenn on which would have been his 96th birthday. this discussion included former u.s. senator david prior and geologist and astronaut catherine sullivan, veteran of three space shuttle missions, and the first woman to walk in space. this is about an hour. >> >> great to see this crowd. this is a great event. good evening, ladies and gentlemen. i'm jack dailey. it is my pleasure to welcome you to a very special john h. glenn lecture in space and history. we established this lecture series in 2004 to spotlight the legendary figures in aviation in over the last 13 years we welcome to truly shorten aryan vigils. but none of them has loomed larger in the history book

. >> born on july 18th 1921, john glen was a decorated u.s. marine aviator, an astronaut, the first american to orbit the earth and much later in life, the oldest person to travel to space. he represented ohio in

he ended up flying 39 combat missions, seven of them with john glen. he was one of the squad mates there. he crash landed on his second mission in 1953. with the landing craft -- they wheels wouldn't come down, he had to skid the plane along the runway and jump out before it burst into flames. he was hit by bullets at least two other times. and he definitely had his day as a true hero. >> thank you all very much, and would you like to have a parting message catherine. >> i'd like to say i've learned more about sports in the last hour than i have in all of my years. thank you to everybody out there, thank you to our supporters and thank you to the people who will become our supporters. paul goldberg or discusses his book baseball in the american city. i want to thank the library and the library board, jonathan

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