Ken Jones (news reporter)

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name = Ken Jones
caption = Ken Jones
birth_name = Kenneth Leon Jones
birth_date = June 9, 1938
birth_place = Los Angeles, California
death_date = May 13, 1993 (age 54)
death_place = Los Angeles, California
occupation = Television news reporter, News anchor, Radio host, Publisher, Actor
years_active = 1954's–1988
known_for = Longtime anchorman for KTTV-TV, Los Angeles

Kenneth Leon "Ken" Jones (June 9, 1938 - May 13, 1993) was an American television journalist, actor, reporter and news anchor, most notably working for Los Angeles television station KTTV-TV channel 11 and KNXT channel 2. Jones, a veteran Los Angeles TV newsman was known for his reports on the 1965 Watts riots and the assassination of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968. Ken Jones also conceived and published, along with his wife Regina Jones, SOUL, a black entertainment newsmagazine, from 1966-82. In 1992, Ken was diagnosed with bladder cancer and after a short battle with the disease, died in May 1993. [ [http://www.variety.com/article/VR107168.html - Ken Jones Variety ] ]

^Background

The oldest of three children, Ken was born to Georgia Wood Jones and Henry Leon Jones in Los Angeles, California. He graduated from
John C. Fremont High school in Los Angeles. He married Regina Nickerson in 1958. Regina is the granddaughter of William Nickerson Jr., co-founder of Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company. Together Ken and Regina Jones had four sons, Kenneth,Jr., Kevin, Keith, Kory, and one daughter Karen. In 1992, Jones was diagnosed with bladder cancer and after a short battle with the disease, died in May 1993. [Jones, Ken. "Ken Jones; L.A.'s first black anchorman" "Los Angeles Times", May 18, 1993.]

^Career

He was hired as a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner Newspaper in 1954. He became a disc jockey at KBCA and
KGFJ radio and a news director for KDAY radio in L.A. in 1962. He worked as a production assistant for the West Coast edition of the
Huntley-Brinkley Report from 1963-65 which he left to become a regular newscaster for KRLA radio in Pasadena. A position he held until 1967 when he was hired as a Feature Reporter-Anchor at KTTV-TV in Los Angeles where he received an Emmy Award for a one-hour news special, The High Cost of Health Care May Be Hazardous To Your Health. His growing prominence led to numerous TV and film roles including The Candidate (1972) and The Brady Bunch (1972) (TV). Ken worked as a reporter and weekend anchor at KNXT now KCBS-TV Los Angeles in 1980.] [ [http://www.imdb.com/name/nm1154137/ Ken Jones (III) ] ] [ [http://www.tv.com/the-brady-bunch/the-liberation-of-marcia-brady/episode/4906/summary.html Ken Jones tv.com ] ]

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^Filmography

*"The Candidate" - himself (1972)
*"" - himself (Archive Footage) (2008)

^{Television work (actor)}

*"The Brady Bunch" The Liberation of Marcia Brady - Newscaster (1971)
*"McMillan and Wife" - Newscaster 3 Episodes (1972-1974)
*"Police Woman" - Newscaster (1977)
*"The Young Runaways" - Mike Carruthers (1978)
*"Matt Houston" - reporter (1983)

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