 Not much is known of the life of J (or James Darrell Edwards III) prior to being recruited into Men in Black.His appearance as a small child in 1969 in "Men in Black 3" would place his year of birth in 1965.His father, United States Army Colonel James Darrell Edwards Jr., was working security at Kennedy Space Center for the Apollo 11 launch when he was murdered by the alien Boris the Animal after assisting Men in Black Agent K in stopping a chain of events that would have led to K's death and a widescale invasion of Earth forty years later.