{"id":62184,"date":"2024-11-12T20:00:00","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T01:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/?post_type=lecture&#038;p=62184"},"modified":"2025-02-28T17:38:42","modified_gmt":"2025-02-28T22:38:42","slug":"john-glenn-and-ted-williams","status":"publish","type":"lecture","link":"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/john-glenn-and-ted-williams\/","title":{"rendered":"John Glenn and Ted Williams"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<section class=\"wp-block-umw-hero alignfull umw-custom-block umw-hero umw-hero--dark-text umw-hero--white umw-hero--with-no-media\"><div class=\"umw-hero__inner\"><div class=\"umw-hero__media\"><\/div><div class=\"umw-hero__title\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__title__wrapper\"><div class=\"umw-hero__eyebrow\">great lives lecture series<\/div><h1 class=\"umw-hero__title__header\">John Glenn <br>and Ted Williams<\/h1><\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<div class=\"wp-block-umw-hero-ctas alignfull\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links\"><div class=\"container\"><div class=\"umw-hero__links__wrapper\">\n\n\n\n<\/div><\/div><\/div><\/div>\n<\/section>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-lecture-date-february-4-2025\">Lecture Date: February 4, 2025<\/h2>\n\n\n\n<h3 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-the-davenport-amp-company-lecture\">The Davenport &amp; Company Lecture<\/h3>\n\n\n\n<figure class=\"wp-block-embed is-type-video is-provider-vimeo wp-block-embed-vimeo wp-embed-aspect-16-9 wp-has-aspect-ratio\"><div class=\"wp-block-embed__wrapper\">\n<iframe loading=\"lazy\" title=\"Great Lives 2025: John Glenn &amp; Ted Williams\" src=\"https:\/\/player.vimeo.com\/video\/1054653301?dnt=1&amp;app_id=122963\" width=\"1100\" height=\"619\" frameborder=\"0\" allow=\"autoplay; fullscreen; picture-in-picture; clipboard-write; encrypted-media\"><\/iframe>\n<\/div><\/figure>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignright size-full is-resized\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/lazarus.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"680\" height=\"1000\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/lazarus.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62155\" style=\"width:276px;height:auto\" title=\"\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/lazarus.jpg 680w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/lazarus-204x300.jpg 204w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 680px) 100vw, 680px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men\u2014already experts in their fields\u2014crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. John Glenn was an ambitious operations officer with fifty-nine World War II combat missions under his belt. His wingman was Ted Williams, the two-time American League Triple Crown winner who, at the pinnacle of his career, had been inexplicably recalled to active service in the United States Marine Corps. Together, the affable flier and the notoriously tempestuous left fielder soared into North Korea, creating a death-defying bond. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Although, over the next half century, their contrasting lives were challenged by exhilarating highs and devastating lows, that bond would endure. In his fifth book, <em>The Wingmen<\/em>, author Adam Lazarus sheds light on a largely forgotten chapter in these legends\u2019 lives\u2014as singular individuals, inspiring patriots, and eventually, however improbable, profoundly close friends. Through unpublished letters, unit diaries, declassified military records, manuscripts, and new and illuminating interviews,&nbsp;<em>The Wingmen<\/em>&nbsp;reveals an epic and intimate portrait of two heroes\u2014larger-than-life and yet ineffably human, ordinary men who accomplished the extraordinary. At its heart, this was a conflicted friendship that found commonality in mutual respect\u2014throughout the perils of war, sports dominance, scientific innovation, cutthroat national politics, the burden of celebrity, and the meaning of bravery.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-buttons is-layout-flex wp-block-buttons-is-layout-flex\">\n<div class=\"wp-block-button\"><a class=\"wp-block-button__link wp-element-button\" href=\"https:\/\/docs.google.com\/presentation\/d\/1fMk2O9OUJ7IE8hZWPFhLSrqflhNB5Vy_\/edit?usp=sharing&amp;ouid=103238403274382254745&amp;rtpof=true&amp;sd=true\">VIEW PHOTO SLIDESHOW<div class='arrow'><\/div><\/a><\/div>\n<\/div>\n\n\n\n<h2 class=\"wp-block-heading\" id=\"h-speaker-adam-lazarus\">Speaker: Adam Lazarus<\/h2>\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\">\n<figure class=\"alignleft size-full\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/lazaras_pic.png\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" width=\"234\" height=\"334\" src=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/lazaras_pic.png\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-62171\" srcset=\"\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/lazaras_pic.png 234w, \/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/8\/2024\/11\/lazaras_pic-210x300.png 210w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 234px) 100vw, 234px\" \/><\/a><\/figure>\n<\/div>\n\n\n<p>Adam Lazarus is an author specializing in non-fiction books that feature great figures and characters. His fourth book, about Joe Gibbs and the dynastic Washington Redskins of the 1980s and 1990s, came out in September 2015. <em>Hail to the Redskins<\/em> features more than 90 original interviews and over two dozen photographs. His third book, <em>Best of Rivals<\/em>, is about the famous quarterback controversy between Joe Montana and Steve Young. <em>Super Bowl Monday<\/em>, his second book, centers on Super Bowl XXV, one of the greatest games in NFL history, and its intersection with Operation Desert Storm. <em>Chasing Greatness<\/em>\u2014his first book, about the unforgettable 1973 U.S. Open at Oakmont\u2014was mentioned in <em>Sports Illustrated<\/em>. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Work by Lazarus has appeared in <em>ESPN the Magazine<\/em>, the <em>Atlanta Journal-Constitution<\/em>, <em>Bleacher Report<\/em>, <em>Golf Magazine<\/em>, and <em>USA Today<\/em>. He received a bachelor&#8217;s degree in English from Kenyon College in 2004 and a master&#8217;s degree in Professional Writing from Carnegie Mellon University in 2006, specializing in journalism.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"umw_cb_additional_links":[[]],"_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_advisory_expires_time":"","_advisory_meta_include":false,"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"season":[1261],"class_list":{"0":"post-62184","1":"lecture","2":"type-lecture","3":"status-publish","5":"season-1261","6":"entry"},"acf":[],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v26.9 (Yoast SEO v26.9) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>John Glenn and Ted Williams - Great Lives<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.umw.edu\/greatlives\/lecture\/john-glenn-and-ted-williams\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"John Glenn and Ted Williams\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Lecture Date: February 4, 2025 The Davenport &amp; Company Lecture It was 1953, the Korean War in full throttle, when two men\u2014already experts in their fields\u2014crossed the fabled 38th Parallel into Communist airspace aboard matching Panther jets. 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