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Jack Howard Towers was born in Bradley, South Dakota in the United States.
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After graduating from South Dakota State College, he became a cooperative extension service worker at the South Dakota State College extension. He moved to Washington in 1941 to work for the United States. Department of Agriculture, served in the Army from 1942 to 1946, and then returned to the United States Department of Agriculture. Towers was in charge of radio broadcasting at the United States Department of Agriculture from 1952 to 1974, where he developed agriculture-related programs for broadcast on American radio networks. He retired from the United States Department of Agriculture in 1974 and what had been a hobby of remastering rare recordings, primarily of jazz groups, became a second career.
He used techniques such as manually scraping imperfections such as pops and hisses from reel-to-reel tapes with an X-Acto knife.
He lived in Hyattsville, Maryland and, from 1991, in Ashton until he died at age 96 in 2010 in nearby Rockville from Parkinson"s disease.
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