Bill Text: CA ACR137 | 2015-2016 | Regular Session | Amended

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Bill Title: John Wayne.

Spectrum: Moderate Partisan Bill (Republican 25-6-1)

Status: (Introduced - Dead) 2016-04-28 - Read and amended. (Page 4566.) Read. Refused adoption. (Ayes 36. Noes 19. Page 4598.) [ACR137 Detail]

Download: California-2015-ACR137-Amended.html

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BILL NUMBER: ACR 137	AMENDED
	BILL TEXT

	AMENDED IN ASSEMBLY  APRIL 28, 2016

INTRODUCED BY   Assembly Member Harper
   (Coauthors: Assembly Members Achadjian, Bigelow, Brough, Eduardo
Garcia, Grove, Lackey, Linder, Mathis,  and Patterson
  Patterson,   Travis Allen,   Chang,
  Chávez,   Cooley,   Dahle,  
Dodd,   Beth Gaines,  Gallagher,   Gray,
  Kim,   Maienschein,   Mayes,  
Medina,   Melendez,   Obernolte,   Olsen,
  Steinorth,   Wagner,   Waldron, 
 and Wilk  )
   (Coauthors: Senators Nielsen and Vidak)

                        FEBRUARY 11, 2016

   Relative to John Wayne.


	LEGISLATIVE COUNSEL'S DIGEST


   ACR 137, as amended, Harper. John Wayne.
   This bill would recognize May 26, 2016, as John Wayne Day.
   Fiscal committee: no.



   WHEREAS, John Wayne was the prototypical American hero,
symbolizing such traits as self-reliance, grace under pressure,
resolve, and patriotism; and
   WHEREAS, Born Marion Robert Morrison on May 26, 1907, in
Winterset, Iowa, he moved with his parents as a young boy to
California; in 1916, while the family was living in Glendale, he
began going by "Duke," a nickname that followed him throughout his
life; and
   WHEREAS, In 1925, he began attending the University of Southern
California on a football scholarship, playing offensive lineman;
after sustaining a shoulder injury from a bodysurfing accident in
Newport Beach just prior to his junior year, he withdrew from the
university and began working at Fox Film Corporation as a laborer
moving set props and as an occasional extra in movies; and
   WHEREAS, While working at the studio, he met Wyatt Earp, who was a
consultant to Western film director John Ford, and he would adopt
some of Earp's mannerisms for his roles as a cowboy; and
   WHEREAS, The first film in which he was the leading actor gave him
the screen name "John Wayne," which he would use for the remainder
of his acting career; and
   WHEREAS, Starring in classic Western films such as Stagecoach, Red
River, The Searchers, and True Grit, Wayne personified the
archetypal cowboy who is rough-edged and plainspoken but also capable
of great warmth, kindness, and generosity; he won an Oscar in 1970
for Best Actor for his role as Rooster Cogburn in True Grit; and
   WHEREAS, In The Alamo, his first film as a director, John Wayne
played the role of Davy Crockett; the film won an Oscar nomination in
1961 for Best Picture; Wayne also directed and starred in a
Vietnam-based movie, The Green Berets, which was released in 1968;
and
   WHEREAS, Wayne was an avid supporter of the United States military
and toured bases and hospitals throughout the South Pacific in 1943
and 1944 with the United Service Organizations; he was awarded the
Congressional Gold Medal in 1979, engraved with the words "John
Wayne, American" encapsulating his entire life; and
   WHEREAS, John Wayne was one of Newport Beach's most famous
residents; he loved the area and was known as a regular guy around
town, frequently hosting other famous Hollywood personalities. His
beloved yacht, the Wild Goose, a converted Navy minesweeper now owned
and operated by Hornblower Yachts is available for tours and
charters out of Newport Beach; and
   WHEREAS, In 1968, the University of Southern California
established The John Wayne Scholarship Fund in his honor; and, upon
his passing, in 1979, the John Wayne airport located in Orange County
then named Orange County Airport, was renamed John Wayne Airport in
honor of his achievements and influence, and a nine-foot-tall statute
of him was raised at John Wayne Airport; and
   WHEREAS, John Wayne was laid to rest in 1979 in his favorite
place, Newport Beach, California, with a western-theme plaque
depicting a cowboy on horseback; and
   WHEREAS, In 1985, Wayne's family founded the John Wayne Cancer
Foundation to "bring courage, strength and grit to the fight against
cancer"; and
   WHEREAS, John Wayne was inducted into the California Hall of Fame
by then Governor Schwarzenegger in 2007; now, therefore, be it
   Resolved by the Assembly of the State of California, the Senate
thereof concurring, That the Legislature hereby recognizes May 26,
2016, as John Wayne Day; and be it further
   Resolved, That a copy of this Resolution be prepared in honor of
this special occasion and as a tribute to the life of John Wayne.