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- John Marshall was born on November 12, 1932 in Massachusetts, USA. He was a director and cinematographer, known for N!Ai, the Story of a !Kung Woman (1981), A Kalahari Family (2001) and 901/904 (1972). He was married to Alexandra Eliot Marshall. He died on April 22, 2005 in Boston, Massachusetts, USA.
- SpouseAlexandra Eliot Marshall (1 child)
- He was the son of one of the founders of Raytheon Company. In 1950, he began interviewing Kalahari Desert bushmen in Africa with a 16mm camera, the start of a 50-year relationship. He lobbied the Namibian government to improve conditions for the bushmen.
- John Kennedy Marshall was the son of Lawrence Kennedy Marshall (1889-1980), a graduate of MIT and soldier in the First World War in the Canadian Expeditionary Force, and of Lorna Jean McLean Marshall (1898-2002), an author and anthropologist specializing in the Bushmen of Africa. He had a sister, Elizabeth Marshall Thomas (born 1931), also an author and anthropologist. With his wife, Alexandra Eliot Marshall, Ph.D., he had a daughter, Sonya, and two stepsons, Frederick and Christopher Eliot.
- Earned an M.A. in anthropology from Harvard University.
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