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- Birth nameJackly Flamhaft
- John Grasse was born on October 30, 1913 in New York, New York, USA. John is known for Jeepers Creepers Theater (1962), The Polka Parade (1955) and The Oscar Levant Show (1958). John died on December 27, 2015 in Monterey Park, California, USA.
- Grasse received a mining engineering degree from the Wisconsin School of Mines and then worked for Lockheed during most of the 1940s. He was one of the 28 engineers who designed the first U.S. fighter jet as part of the top-secret military project known as "Skunk Works.".
- John Lee Grasse, a longtime director of engineering and industrial relations at Los Angeles independent station KCOP-TV.
Grasse joined KCOP as a cameraman in 1950 when it operated under the call letters KLAC and spent three decades there.
At KCOP, he designed and had built what he called "a self-contained color TV station on wheels," allowing for mobile broadcasting. Before that it took three full tractor-trailers full of gear for a TV station to do a remote.
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