# Top Gun's Debut & Jordan's Medal| May 16

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Podcast: [Michigan Minute](https://stenobird.com/podcast/michigan-minute-6463805)
Published: 2026-05-16T04:00:00+00:00
Episode link: https://www.wkar.org/podcast/michigan-minute/2026-05-16/top-guns-debut-jordans-medal-may-16
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## Resource

On this day in 1986, Top Gun opened and became a smash hit. Written by Michigan State professor Jim Cash and his former student Jack Epps Jr., the film was a product of their remote collaboration. And today in 2016, John Willie Jordan of Farmington, Michigan, received the Congressional Gold Medal. Jordan was one of the first Black Americans to join the Marines in the 1940s, serving as one of the Montford Point Marines. He reflected, “I thought I had been forgotten.”

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