From Gil O. Emailed 9/20/2014 1:46 AM
Martha and I have been enjoying the newest Ken Burns PBS series on the Roosevelts - Theodore, Franklin and Eleanor, and I became curious about Geoffrey Ward who wrote the script and apparently also wrote most of Ken Burns other projects such as his series on the Civil War. When I looked him up on the internet I was stunned to find out that his childhood was spent in Chicago and in New Delhi! Ward was born in November 1940 and so is a contemporary of ours but as far as I know was never a student at Woodstock. I haven’t been able to find out what his parents did in India but I did discover that he has written a book about his great grandfather Ferdinand Ward (whose parents were missionaries to India from 1837 to 1846) who was a famous swindler. Geoffrey Ward has also written three books on India and its fauna. http://www.pbs.org/kenburns/about-the-filmmakers/geoffrey-ward Gil
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