A native of Lexington, Kentucky, Jones received a bachelor's degree from Howard University in Washington, D.C., from which he graduated summa cum laude in 1957 with majors in Philosophy and French.
Bert Combs that he would be arrested if he set foot in Murray again, Jones recalled in his third-person autobiographical sketch, he removed himself from the jurisdiction of his home state to seek more hospitable environments and ended up in New York City where he practiced law from 1962 to 1968.
[1] In the mid-1980s, he played a prominent role as counsel to the family of Michael Stewart, a 25-year-old Brooklyn man arrested for scrawling graffiti in a subway station at First Avenue and 14th Street in Manhattan.
He worked internationally helping to develop the government of Liberia and managing financial affairs for First Investment Capital Corporation, a Paris-based subsidiary of Al-Anwae Trading Company of Saudi Arabia.
While in Paris, Jones was introduced to Charles Haimoff, CEO of Horphag Overseas, Ltd., the international distributor of the world's most powerful and effective anti-oxidant, Pycnogenol.