As some of you may already know, Documentary Educational Resources founder and President, John Kennedy Marshall, died on Friday, April 22nd. He had a short, but courageous battle with lung cancer.

We are grateful that he accomplished the completion of A Kalahari Family, a documentary unequaled in ethnographic film and was able to participate in the success of its release to world acclaim. We are also grateful that he received a lifetime achievement award from the Society for Visual Anthropology at a time when it was most meaningful for him.

We are planning to celebrate DER’s 35th anniversary in 2006 at the Boston Museum of Fine Arts and we know that John will be with us in spirit at that event. John would be pleased to know his legacy will live on and that we will help to ensure it.

There will be a memorial service for John at Memorial Church, in Harvard Yard, on Saturday April 30th at 1:00 with a reception after at the Harvard Faculty Club.

We hope you will join us then to celebrate the life and work of John Kennedy Marshall.

Obituary:
The Nambian
The Boston Herald
The Boston Globe
Associated Press

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