This autographed picture from 1983 shows the late Sen. John Glenn, left, and Patrick Paradis when the two met in Augusta while Glenn ran in the 1984 Democratic presidential primary.
Augusta City Councilor Patrick Paradis talks about the late John Glenn during an interview on Friday in the study of his Augusta home. Paradis met Glenn while the senator and former astronaut was running for President in 1984.
In this Tuesday, Jan. 18, 1984 file photo, Sen. John Glenn, D-Ohio, answers questions from the press in Jackson, Miss. At left is his wife, Annie Glenn. Glenn traveled through the South seeking support for his presidential campaign. Glenn, the first U.S. astronaut to orbit Earth who later spent 24 years representing Ohio in the Senate, died Thursday at the age of 95.
This autographed picture from 1983 shows the late Sen. John Glenn, left, and Patrick Paradis when the two met in Augusta while Glenn ran in the 1984 Democratic presidential primary. Also framed with it are a sheet of stamps commemorating Glenn's space flight in the Mercury program.
This undated photo made available by NASA shows astronaut John Glenn in his Mercury flight suit. Glenn, the first American to orbit Earth who later spent 24 years representing Ohio in the Senate, died Thursday at the age of 95.
In this Feb. 23, 1962 file photo, astronaut John Glenn and President John F. Kennedy inspect the Friendship 7, the Mercury capsule in which Glenn became the first American to orbit the Earth. Kennedy presented Distinguished Service medal to Glenn at Cape Canaveral, Fla. At right is Vice President Lyndon Johnson. Glenn, who later spent 24 years representing Ohio in the Senate, has died at 95.
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