30 Facts About Jacque Fresco

Jacque Fresco was an American futurist and self-described social engineer.

Jacque Fresco directed the Venus Project and advocated global implementation of a socioeconomic system which he referred to as a "resource-based economy".

Jacque Fresco was born on March 13,1916, and grew up in a Sephardi Jewish household, at the family's home in Bensonhurst, in the Brooklyn borough of New York City.

Jacque Fresco's father was an agriculturist born in Constantinople, while his mother Lena was an emigrant from Jerusalem.

Jacque Fresco left home at the age of 14, hitchhiking and "jumping" trains as one of the so-called "Wild Boys of the Road".

Jacque Fresco worked at Douglas Aircraft Company in California during the late 1930s.

Jacque Fresco presented designs including a flying wing and a disk-shaped aircraft.

Jacque Fresco was assigned technical design duties for the Army Air Forces at Wright Field design laboratories in Dayton, Ohio.

Jacque Fresco did not adjust to military life and was discharged.

Jacque Fresco was commissioned by Earl "Madman" Muntz, to design low cost housing.

Jacque Fresco came closest to traditional career success with this project.

In 1955, Jacque Fresco left California after his laboratory was removed to build the Golden State Freeway.

Jacque Fresco opened a business as a psychological consultant, but had no formal schooling in the subject.

Jacque Fresco described white supremacist organizations he joined to test the feasibility of changing people.

Jacque Fresco tells of joining a local Ku Klux Klan and White Citizens Council in an attempt to change their views about racial discrimination.

Jacque Fresco made his living working as an industrial designer for various companies such as Alcoa and the Major Realty Corporation.

In 1961, with Pietro Belluschi and C Frederick Wise, Fresco collaborated on a project known as the Sandwich House.

From 1955 to 1969 Jacque Fresco named his social ideas "Project Americana".

Jacque Fresco formed "Sociocyberneering", a membership organization claiming 250 members, according to an interview with Jacque Fresco.

Jacque Fresco hosted lectures in Miami Beach and Coral Gables.

Jacque Fresco promoted his organization by lecturing at universities and appearing on radio and television.

Jacque Fresco was born to immigrants from the Middle East, Isaac and Lena Jacque Fresco.

Jacque Fresco's father was born in 1880 and around 1905 immigrated from Istanbul to New York where he worked as a horticulturist.

Jacque Fresco's mother was born in 1887 in Jerusalem and migrated to New York around 1904.

Jacque Fresco was brother to two siblings, a sister, Freda, and a brother, David.

Jacque Fresco had two marriages when he lived in Los Angeles and carried his second marriage through his first couple of years in Miami.

Jacque Fresco divorced his second wife in 1957 and remained unmarried thereafter.

Jacque Fresco died on May 18,2017, in his sleep at his home in Sebring, Florida, from complications of Parkinson's disease at the age of 101.

Jacque Fresco's work gained the attention of science fiction enthusiast and critic Forrest J Ackerman.

Jacque Fresco later attracted Star Trek animator, Doug Drexler, who worked with Jacque Fresco to produce several computer renderings of his designs.