Biography
Carpenter was of Native American and Spanish heritage. He was born on an Indian reservation where as a teenager he often earned money as a migrant worker harvesting apricots.
Carpenter served in the U.S. Army and was married twice. Following his retirement from the army he took a job marketing video technology, achieving expertise in that field and becoming head of the video wing of a new Japanese electronics company debuting in the USA called Sonycom, later to be known simply as Sony. John has a child from his first marrage John Michael Carpenter whom was adopted with the last name of Merrill. John Carpenter has Three grand children from his first marrage and six great grand children.
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