birth_date: 1940-10-05 00:00:00
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name: John Byrne Cooke
about: John Byrne Cooke was an American author of five books, road manager to Janis Joplin from late 1967 until her untimely death in 1970, a musician, a photographer, and a documentary film maker. He was the son of Alistair Cooke, and the great-grandnephew of Ralph Waldo Emerson.
death_date: 2017-09-03 00:00:00