Holbrook, Richard Melville

Richard Melville Holbrook was born in 1937 on the family farm ten miles outside North Platte, Nebraska. He soon moved with his parents to Brentwood, a community on the west side of Los Angeles, California.

After graduating from San Fernando High School in a San Fernando Valley suburb, he spent four years in the Strategic Air Command of the United States Air Force, educated and assigned as a Medical Service Specialist, trained as a medical and surgical emergency room technician, spending an additional two years in obstetrics assisting with deliveries, and formally trained in the care and t