The POP-EXPOSE ‘Jackie Gleason’ by Mitchell Smith!
John Herbert Gleason was born February 26, 1916 in Brooklyn, NY and passed away from colon cancer on June 24, 1987. His father left them when Gleason was young and his mother was forced to get a job and support him and his brother. Gleason lost his only sibling, Clemence to Spinal meningitis when he was 14 and In 1935 Jackie lost his mother to sepsis when he was just 19 and he was all alone. He moved into a hotel room momentarily with his friend Sammy Birch and another…
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