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About John Swope
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Swope_(photographer)
John Swope (August 23, 1908 – May 11, 1979) was a photographer for Life Magazine, and a pilot.
John Swope was a photographer for Life Magazine, and a pilot.
He was born in New Brunswick, New Jersey in 1908.[3]
He attended Harvard University in 1930. There, he joined the theatrical group University Players where Henry Fonda, Jimmy Stewart, and Joshua Logan were also members.
His interest in photography began when he brought a camera to a yacht race from Los Angeles to Hawaii in 1936.
Together with Leland Hayward and John H. Connelly, he co-founded Southwest Airways (no connection to the present day Southwest Airlines), a company that developed the Thunderbird Fields, which trained thousands of military pilots during the Second World War.
He was married to actress Dorothy McGuire in 1943 until his death in May 11, 1979.
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John Swope's Timeline
| 1908 |
August 23, 1908
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North Brunswick, Middlesex County, New Jersey, United States
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| 1953 |
May 14, 1953
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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| 1979 |
May 11, 1979
Age 70
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Los Angeles, Los Angeles County, California, United States
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