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 in the Local General or Spot News Reporting category.
[1][2] John E. Jones, Jr. was born on June 14, 1924, in El Paso, Texas.
During World War II, Jones served in the Navy's amphibious forces.
[1] As the actress Barbara Stewart she had played in the television version of Dragnet, whose creator and star Jack Webb "insisted on paying for the Stewart–Jones wedding".
[1][4] Jack Jones died of lung disease on May 12, 2011, at his Oceanside, California home.