John R. Young was born and raised in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He and his wife of 34 years have two children and three grandchildren, who are the light of their life. John had an interest in the John Kennedy assassination from an early age. He started seriously researching the assassination in 1989 when he met his hero Penn Jones Jr.. Since that day John has interviewed dozens of witnesses, including Secret Service Agents and Marina Oswald. He became very dear friends with several lifelong researchers that helped him open doors into his own research. He joined a research group in Dallas in mid-90’s and have spent thousands of hours interviewing, researching and investigating the murder of President Kennedy. The End of Innocence is his research work compiled into a 500 page book, complete with almost 1000 pictures. Through his book, one can learn things about the assassination that our history books didn’t tell us.