John Glenn Gilligan, the Ohio Governor at the time, appointed Glenn to be the chairman of the Citizens Task Force on Environmental Protection in 1970. The task force was created to survey environmental problems in the state and released a report in 1971 detailing the issues. The meetings and the final report of the task force were major contributors to the formation of Ohio's Environmental Protection Agency. In 1973, President Nixon ordered Attorney General Elliot Richardson to fire Watergate special prosecutor Archibald Cox. Richardson refused and resigned in protest, triggering the Saturday Night Massacre. Ohio Senator William Saxbe, elected in 1968, was
John Glenn (screenwriter) John Glenn (screenwriter) John Patrick Glenn is an American screenwriter, producer, and director. Glenn was born in Tuscaloosa, Alabama and worked as a musician prior to moving to Los Angeles. Glenn began his screenwriting career in 2000, selling the spec script for the film Red World to Jerry Bruckheimer and Walt Disney Pictures. Subsequently, Glenn worked on films including "Journey to the Center of the Earth" with producer Richard Zanuck, "Clash of the Titans" with producer Adam Schroeder and "Law Abiding Citizen" with director F. Gary Gray. In 2008, he wrote the original draft for the Steven Spielberg produced feature