The
History of John A. Kennedy & Associates |
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| John Kennedy, the founder of John A. Kennedy and
Associates, is now
retired. In his more than fifty year career as the foremost fire and explosion
investigator, he built the first and most prestigious fire investigation company in the
world, John A. Kennedy and Associates, Inc. |
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| His innovations in fire scene technology, fire pattern analysis, fire investigation
methodology, and fire investigator training and education, revolutionized the fire and
explosion investigation industry in the 1950’s, 60’s, 70’s and 80’s. |
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| Literally thousands of fire investigators got their "basic training" from
courses originated and taught by John Kennedy, at such schools as the Purdue Arson
Seminar, the Ohio State Arson Seminar the programs of the International Association of
Arson Investigators and the National Association of Fire Investigators. |
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| His early textbooks, Fire and Arson Investigating, (1958) and Fire and Arson
Investigation (1962, 1972) represent the first truly systematic and scientific texts
for fire investigation science and technology of their time. These, along with his later
textbooks, Fires and Explosions Determining Cause and Origin, (1985) and Explosion
Investigation and Analysis – Kennedy on Explosions (1990). |
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| Many of the theories, procedures, and techniques originated and popularized by John
Kennedy are now considered the standard procedures of fire and explosion investigation. |
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| With a background in the insurance investigation industry and as a Commander in United
States Naval Intelligence, John Kennedy founded John A. Kennedy and
Associates in
April of 1955. Up until that time there had never been a firm, anywhere in the world,
devoted particularly to the investigation and analysis of fire and explosion incidents. |
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| His legacy to the fire and explosion investigation and fire litigation communities
includes the training and development of thousands of today’s fire investigators,
especially the current experts of John A. Kennedy and
Associates. |
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| After fifty years of pioneering work in the Fire
Investigation field, John Kennedy retired from Fire Investigation.
He is still active in the industry as President of the National Association
of Fire Investigators. |
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