In 1943, he was accidentally doused with hundreds of pounds of hot DDT when a hopper valve opened.
Although coated with, by his own estimate, an inch of DDT from head to foot; Jacobs suffered no ill consequences from his exposure.
[4] In 1947, he opened a one-man consulting engineering business in Pasadena, California, where he and his wife made their home.
He had previously created the Jacobs Family Foundation, which donated about $32 million to non-profit organizations.
The second, Compassionate Conservative: Assuming Responsibility and Respecting Human Dignity, was published in 1995 and outlined his political philosophy.