Ken Jones news reporter

Kenneth Leon Jones (June 9, 1938 – May 13, 1993) was an American television journalist, actor, reporter, and news anchor. Born in Los Angeles to Georgia Wood Jones and Henry Leon Jones, he was the oldest of three children. He graduated from John C. Fremont High School and married Regina Nickerson in 1958; their union produced five children: Kenneth Jr., Kevin, Keith, Kory, and Karen. Jones began his career as a reporter for the Los Angeles Herald-Examiner in 1954. He worked as a disc jockey at radio stations KBCA and KGFJ before becoming a news director at KDAY radio in 1962. In 1963, he joined the West Coast edition of the Huntley-Brinkley Report as a production assistant, leaving in 1965 to become a newscaster for KRLA radio in Pasadena until 1967. That year, he was hired as a feature reporter and later promoted to weeknight anchor at KTTV-TV in Los Angeles, where he won an Emmy Award for his one-hour news special on healthcare costs. Jones gained prominence for his coverage of the 1965 Watts riots and Sen. Robert F. Kennedy's assassination in 1968. Alongside his wife Regina, he co-founded SOUL, a black entertainment newsmagazine, which ran from 1966 to 1982. In 1972, Jones appeared as himself in the films *The Candidate* and *Roman Polanski: Wanted and Desired*. He also acted in television shows such as *The Brady Bunch*, *McMillan & Wife*, *Police Woman*, *The Young Runaways*, and *Matt Houston*. Diagnosed with bladder cancer in 1992, Jones passed away the ...