Joseph Melville See, Jr.

Joseph Melville See Jr., 62, first husband of the late Linda McCartney and the suspected subject of a Beatles song. See married Linda Eastman in the 1960s and had a daughter with her, Heather, now 37. After their divorce, Eastman married Beatle Paul McCartney. She died of cancer two years ago. Because of See’s connection to her, many speculated that he was the Jo Jo of the Beatles hit “Get Back.” The lyric noted, “Jo Jo left his home in Tucson, Arizona, for some California grass.” See was born in New York and earned a bachelor’s degree at Princeton and a master’s at the University of Arizona. He enjoyed studying Native Americans and their culture and made several highly regarded films about various tribes in Mexico. He was found dead Sunday near Tucson of a self-inflicted gunshot wound.

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Joseph See became interested in both photography and the native peoples of the Greater Southwest. He developed his photographic skills and soon was deeply involved in ethnographic filmmaking. (SEE, Joseph M., 61, cultural anthropologist, March 19, Bring's Memorial.)

Arizona Daily Star, The (Tucson, AZ) Date: April 8, 2000 Thanks to contributor 19199118

LINDA McCartney's first husband, Joseph Melville See, has died after shooting himself in Tucson, Arizona. He was 62 and is thought to have inspired the character Jo-Jo in the 1969 Beatles song Get Back. Mr See was an anthropologist who filmed the indigenous people of Mexico.

Joseph was born in 1938. He passed away in 2000.