John E. Jones, Jr. (June 14, 1924 – May 12, 2011) was an American
journalist. He was part of a ''
Los Angeles Times'' team whose coverage of the August 1965
Watts Riots and its aftermath won the 1966
Pulitzer Prize
The Pulitzer Prize () is an award for achievements in newspaper, magazine, online journalism, literature, and musical composition within the United States. It was established in 1917 by provisions in the will of Joseph Pulitzer, who had made h ...
in the
Local General or Spot News Reporting category.
Biography
John E. Jones, Jr. was born on June 14, 1924, in
El Paso, Texas.
[ic>] He earned a
Bachelor of Journalism in 1949 at the
University of Southern California.
During
World War II, Jones served in the Navy's amphibious forces. From 1954 to 1989, he worked at the ''Los Angeles Times''. He wrote three novels, ''Journey Into Death'' (1956), ''The Animal'' (1975) and ''Baja'' (1984).
He was married twice. The first ended in divorce and his second wife, Brie Jones, survived him.
[ As the actress Barbara Stewart she had played in the television version of '' Dragnet'', whose creator and star ]Jack Webb
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"insisted on paying for the Stewart–Jones wedding".[https://www.imdb.com/name/nm0829193/ Barbara Stewart IMDB Profile. ] Jack Jones died of lung disease on May 12, 2011, at his Oceanside, California
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home.
References
1924 births
2011 deaths
American newspaper journalists
Pulitzer Prize for Breaking News Reporting winners
USC Annenberg School for Communication and Journalism alumni
American male journalists
20th-century American journalists
United States Navy personnel of World War II
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