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Early life
John Parker Hammond was born in Edinburgh, Scottland in 1928.

Throughout his life he founded several businesses, his first being a flea circus in Petticoat Lane Market, London. In 1969, he founded Animal Kingdom, a wildlife park located in Nairobi, Kenya. In 1975, he founded International Genetics Technologies or "InGen" for short, in San Diego, California.

At some point in his life, he had a daughter.

Jurassic Park
Around 1981-1982, Hammond had an idea to run created a theme park featuring cloned dinosaurs. Utilizing his company InGen to research cloning dinosaurs, they made a breakthrough by discovering that DNA can be extracted from blood inside insects trapped in amber that fed on dinosaurs when it was alive. In 1982, he leased an island off the coast of Costa Rica called "Isla Sorna", which was used to create and raise the cloned dinosaurs. During the development of his project to create dinosaurs, the board of InGen made Dr. Henry Wu chief geneticist of InGen when he made the proposal of filling in the gaps of a dinosaur's genome with the DNA of extant animals, such as frogs, which made the process of cloning the dinosaurs faster and cheaper compared to Dr. Laura Sorkin's plan to create the whole genome with 100% of the animal's DNA.

Hammond had named his theme park "Jurassic Park" and wanted it built in San Diego, California. Construction of this park began in 1983. In 1984, InGen successfully cloned the first prehistoric animal via an artifical ovum. The next year, Hammond changed his mind about placing Jurassic Park in San Deigo and cancels the one built in that city. He instead decides to place it in Isla Nublar, a neighboring island of Isla Sorna, and leases the island from the Costa Rican Goverment that same year.

In 1986, InGen finally successfully recreated their first dinosaur: Velociraptor. With the cloning of Velociraptor, the recreation of other dinosaur genera would follow such as the famous Tyrannosaurus rex and the behemoth Brachiosaurus. John was present at the birth of every dinosaur on Isla Nublar.

After the last descendant of the Tun-Si (the native tribe of Isla Nublar ) was resettled off of Isla Nublar in 1987, construction of the Jurassic Park on the island began the following year. Hammond hired several people to manage the park. Among the people hired were Dr. Gerry Harding as the park's veterinarian, Ray Arnold as the chief engineer, Dennis Nedry as the computer programmer, and Robert Muldoon as the game warden, an occupation he held at John's Animal Kingdom. In 1990, the first mature animals from Isla Sorna were transported to Nublar.

In the early 1990s, Hammond assigned Dr. Laura Sorkin to a field laboratory to study the dinosaurs of Jurassic Park. During her time working at the field lab she created Troodon. Hammond was unsure if they were fit for his vision for the park and had them evaluated before considering giving them an attraction. He came to the conclusion that they were a threat to his vision and ordered them to be destroyed along with records of their creation. However, unknown to him was that Dr. Sorkin did not euthanize her creation and secretly kept the Troodon in the Quarantine Pens at her lab.

Prelude
After the Velociraptor Incident in which Jophery Brown was killed, Jophery's family sued InGen for $20 million. In response, Hammond decides to bring a group of experts to visit Jurassic Park and inspect it to see if it truly was safe for visitors. The first member of this team included lawyer Donald Gennaro, who in turn added Dr. Ian Malcolm, a mathematician who specialized in Chaos theory or a "chaotician" as he called himself, to the endorsement team. Hammond wanted paleontologist Dr. Alan Grant and paleobotanist Dr. Ellie Sattler, whose dig site in Montana he was funding, to inspect the park as well due to their knowledge of dinosaurs. He also invited his grandchildren Tim and Lex Murphy to the park.

Hammond was supposed to meet Gennaro at the Mano de Dios Amber Mine in the Dominican Republic, but chose to visit his daughter instead as she was going through a divorce.

He eventually visited the dig site of Dr. Grant and Dr. Sattler where he convinced them to inspect his park after offering to fund their fossil digs for an additional 3 years.

Tour
With Grant and Sattler now on the team, the inspectors and Hammond himself traveled to Isla Nublar on June 11, 1993. Upon landing, they boarded two jeeps that were waiting for them. John, in particular, was one of the passengers of Jeep 29 along with Donald Gennaro. The jeeps traveled to the Brachiosaurus Enclosure, where they witnessed the dinosaurs that lived there, most notably the enormous titular Brachiosaurus. Seeing the living dinosaurs left the endorsement team awestruck.

Afterward, the jeeps then drove to the Visitor Center. Inside, Hammond showed the team how the dinosaurs were cloned in a presentation at the center's showcase theater starring an anthropomorphic DNA helix called "Mr. DNA" before going inside the Isla Nublar Laboratory immediately after the presentation. At the lab, they witnessed the birth of a Velociraptor and Dr. Henry Wu answered any questions that the visitors had. They then traveled to the Raptor Pen where they saw the raptors being fed. Hammond also introduced park warden Robert Muldoon to the inspectors at the pen.

They then returned to the Visitor Center to have lunch in the V.I.P. Dining Room. During lunch, each of the visitors gave their doubts on the park. Dr. Malcolm questions if the creation of species extinct for thousands-millions of years was ethical. Elie express concern that the staff does not know the behavior of the animals they had cloned. Dr. Grant remains neutral but warns Hammond to be careful. Out of all of the endorsement team, Donald was the only one who fully approved of the park. After hearing their opinions, chef Alejandro told Hammond that his grandchildren had arrived, so he and the team went to the hallway of the Visitor Center to meet them.

During the tour of the park, John Hammond stayed in the Control Room with Muldoon, Nedry, and Ray Arnold to monitor the team's progress, unlike the other InGen personnel who evacuated the island before the storm hit. The tour was ultimately a disappointment. The Dilophosaurus was nowhere to be seen, the park's Tyrannosaurus rex (later known as Rexy) was unable to reveal herself to the visitors even when she was lured by a live goat, one of the Triceratops had fallen ill for a yet unknown reason, and the tropical storm that was to occur that day began in the middle of the tour.

Incident
As the Tour Vehicles returned to the Garage, Dennis Nedry alerted those in the Control Room that some of Jurassic Park's security would be down due to the system complying some files and that he was supposedly going to get a soda. However, unknown to Hammond and the rest was that Nedry had infected the system with a backdoor he created called "Whte rbt.obj", which disabled all of the park's security except the Raptor Pen, allowing him to steal dinosaur embryos from the Cold Storage Room for Lewis Dodgson.

When those in the Control Room noticed nearly all of the paddocks' fences going offline, they became aware that this was not just the system simply complying some files. Ray Arnold then took over Nedry's computer and tried to bring Jurassic Park back online in the absence of Dennis. Concerned for the whereabouts of his grandchildren who were passengers of the tour vehicles that were affected by the power outage, Hammond ordered Muldoon, who had entered the room with Ellie, to travel to the Tyrannosaur Paddock and Ellie joins Muldoon as well.

Hammond later decided to have ice cream in the Les Gigantes cafe since the ice cream was melting. After returning to the center with Muldoon and an injured Malcolm, Ellie later joined him where the two had a conversation. In this conversation, Hammond reminisced about his first business as well as telling her the reason he created Jurassic Park and expressed how he felt that his park would become under control again. However, Ellie disagreed with him stating that his since of control over the park in the first place was an illusion and that they should be instead be focusing on rescuing Dr. Grant and Hammond's grandchildren. Her words affected Hammond greatly, causing him to shift his priorities to rescuing the people still on Isla Nublar rather than getting Jurassic Park back online.

Eventually, morning came and Arnold still had still not been able to fix what Nedry had done to the system. Believing that Nedry would never return to undo what he had done, Hammond ordered Arnold to shut down the system where it could potentially restart, removing Whte rbt.obj and restoring power. John Arnold initially refused to do so as the system had never been turned off before and the computers might not come back on after the shut down like Hammond expected. Though he then proceeded to do as he was ordered when Hammond insisted stating "People are dying." Just as Hammond predicted, the computers returned back online after the shutdown, though the phone lines, security doors, and other functions of the park were still offline. To completely restore power to Jurassic Park, John Arnold went to go outside to the Maintenance Shed to turn the Circuit Breakers back on. While Arnold went to do this, Hammond ordered everyone else in the Control Room to the Emergency Bunker of the Visitor Center for safety reasons until Arnold returned.

However, Arnold had not returned to the Visitor's Centre after three minutes as he said he nor had the power been restored. Concerned, Ellie took it upon herself to go to the Maintenance Shed and Muldoon joined her on her task, though Hammond felt that he should go in place of Ellie because she was a woman. Once Ellie reached the shed, having split up with Muldoon on his command due to the discovery that the Velociraptors had escaped, John helped her in getting the circuit breakers back on by reading off a schematic of the building via radio. But just after getting the breakers back on a Velociraptor that was a member of the park's pack that had killed John Arnold in the Maintenance Shed attacked Sattler just after she reported to Hammond of what she had accomplished.

Afterward, Ellie and Grant were reunited just outside the Visitor's Center where they proceeded to go inside the bunker of the center. While inside Dr. Grant took one of the Franchi SPAS-12 shotguns being kept in the bunker as defense against the raptors. Later, as Ellie, Alan, and Hammond's grandchildren were in the Control Room with the remaining raptors struggling to get into the room, Lex Murphy, Hammond's granddaughter, finally restored power to Jurassic Park. With the phone lines working, Dr. Grant called Hammond to inform him of the recently working phones, that his grandchildren were safe, and to call the mainland to send rescue helicopters for them. But while Grant was still on the line one of the raptors tried to break through the bulletproof glass window of the Control Room, causing Dr. Grant to fire his shotgun several times at the window. Hearing the sounds of the gunfire made John Hammond scream in distraught.

Hammond did as he was told and called for a rescue helicopter before used a staff jeep labeled "Jeep 10" to exit the center. Bringing an injured Dr. Malcolm along with him, he drove the jeep to the front doors of the Visitor's Center where Drs Sattler and Grant and his John Hammond's grandchildren were just outside on the stairway, having managed to escape the Velociraptor pack due to Jurassic Park's residential Tyrannosaurus entering the center and attacking the raptors. Upon stopping the jeep, Grant told Hammond that he decided not to support Jurassic Park, to which Hammond, who had created the park, replied "So have I." The remaining survivors then proceed to get in the jeep where John drove them to the helipad where their rescue helicopter awaited their arrival. Once inside the helicopter, Hammond simply observed the amber piece on his cane with a sad look on his face, his dream having been crushed.

Aftermath
Though Jurassic Park failed, the dinosaurs that lived on Isla Nublar survived, including the Tyrannosaurus rex. The dinosaurs were not affected by the Lysine contingency, survived by the herbivores eating lysine rich plants and the carnivores in turn ate the herbivores much like what would happen later on the neighboring island of Isla Sorna. Because of the amphibian DNA, the dinosaurs on the island were able to change their sex and thus reproduce. Dr. Grant discovered this when he found Velociraptor egg shells when he was with the Murphy children during the incident, though InGen and Dr. Wu, who created the dinosaurs, were unaware of the breeding until 1994 when they were cleaning up Isla Nublar.

Later life
Not too long after the 1993 Isla Nublar Incident, Hurricane Clarissa struck Isla Sorna, causing the workers to evacuate the island. Before leaving, the workers freed some of the dinosaurs that they had keeping, allowing them to roam wild on the island. Like on Nublar, the dinosaurs survived, breeding due to the frog DNA and beating the Lysine contingency by eating lysine rich foods.