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Alex Jones
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Born
Alexander Emerick Jones

(1974-02-11) February 11, 1974 (age 50)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)Radio host, television host, film producer
Known forAdvocacy of conspiracy theories, anti-globalism, National sovereignty
WebsiteInfoWars.com
PrisonPlanet.com
InfoWars.net
PrisonPlanet.tv
The Jones Report
TruthNews.us
ObamaDeception.net

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11, 1974) is an American paleoconservative[1] talk radio host[2] and documentary filmmaker. His nationally syndicated news/talk show The Alex Jones Show airs via the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM, FM, and shortwave radio stations across the United States, as well as having a large Internet-based audience.[3] Jones has been referred to as a conspiracy theorist by mainstream media outlets.[4][5][6][7][8][9]

Biography

Jones was born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas,[10] and grew up in the suburb of Rockwall.[11] He graduated from Anderson High School in northwest Austin, Texas in 1993 and briefly attended Austin Community College before dropping out. He began his career in Austin with a live, call-in format cable access television program. In 1996, Jones switched format to KJFK, hosting a show named The Final Edition.[12] In 1997, he released his first documentary film, America Destroyed By Design.[13]

In 1998, Jones spearheaded the effort to rebuild the David Koresh-led Branch Davidian compound/church near Waco, Texas. He often featured the project on his cable access program and claimed that Koresh and his followers were peaceful people who were murdered by Attorney General Janet Reno and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) in the infamous Waco Siege.[14]

In 1999, he tied with Shannon Burke for that year's "Best Austin Talk Radio Host" poll as voted by The Austin Chronicle readers.[15] Later that year, he was fired from KJFK-FM. According to the station's operations manager, Jones was fired because his viewpoints made the show hard to sell to advertisers and he refused to broaden his topics..[12] Jones argued: "It was purely political, and it came down from on high," and, "I was told 11 weeks ago to lay off Clinton, to lay off all these politicians, to not talk about rebuilding the church, to stop bashing the Marines, A to Z."[16]

In early 2000 Jones was one of seven Republican candidates for state representative in Texas House District 48, an open seat swing district based in Austin, Texas. In a January 4, 2000 Austin American Statesman story Jones stated that he was running, "to be a watchdog on the inside." Jones, however, aborted his campaign and withdrew before the March primary when polls indicated he had little chance of winning. Democrat Ann Kitchen won the seat in the November election.[17]

Also in 2000, Jones and assistant Mike Hanson infiltrated Bohemian Grove and filmed the opening weekend ceremony, known as the Cremation of Care, claiming it to be mock child sacrifice in front of a 40' stone owl. Jones claims, that this is the worship of Moloch because of the alleged "mock child sacrifice" by fire and not the statue, whose true identity is unknown.

On June 8, 2006, while he was on his way to cover a meeting of the Bilderberg group in Ottawa, Canada, Jones was stopped and detained at the Ottawa airport by Canadian authorities who confiscated his passport, camera equipment, and most of his belongings. He was later released without charge.[18] On September 8, 2007 Jones was arrested while protesting at Sixth Avenue and Forty-Eighth Street in New York, NY. He was charged with operating a bullhorn without a permit. In addition two others were cited for disorderly conduct when his group crashed a live TV show featuring Geraldo Rivera. One of Jones's fellow protesters said "It was ... guerrilla information warfare."[19] Jones has appeared in two Richard Linklater movies as an actor: Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

Media productions

The Alex Jones Show

The Alex Jones Show radio program is broadcast live from Emmis Communications' KLBJ Radio in Austin, Texas, on weekdays from 11:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m. CT and on Sundays from 4:00 to 6:00 p.m. CT. The program is syndicated nationally in association with Genesis Communications Network[3] to more than 60 AM and FM radio stations in the United States and to WWCR Radio Shortwave. The program, including the last hour of the weekday broadcasts, is webcast and repeated at his Internet web sites.[20]

Websites

Jones launched his first website, PrisonPlanet.com, in 2001 which is now part of a network of sites.

Films

Jones has created a series of videos about the New World Order or totalitarian world government, based on what he considers as the erosion of U.S. national sovereignty and its civil liberties, as well as the misuse of government power, corporate deception and cohesion between disparate power structures.

Executive Producer
  • Loose Change: Final Cut by Dylan Avery (2007) (Video)
Producer
  • 9/11 Chronicles, The: Part 1, Truth Rising (2008) (Video)
  • America: Destroyed by Design (1998) (Video)
  • Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000) (Video)
  • Endgame 1.5 (2007) (Video)
  • Endgame: Blueprint for Global Enslavement (2007) (Video)
  • Fabled Enemies by Jason Bermas (2008) (Video)
  • Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State (2005) (Video)
  • Order of Death, The (2005) (Video)
  • TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism (2006) (Video)
  • TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism -- Second Edition (2007) (Video)-Extended version with 17 minutes of new footage
  • The Obama Deception (2009) (Video, in production, scheduled for release on Mar. 15)
Director
  • 911: The Road to Tyranny (2002) (Video)
  • American Dictators (2004) (Television)-Examines the major presidential candidates of 2004
  • Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports: Exposed (2001) (Video)-Interview of commodity-trading advisor Walter Burien
  • Masters of Terror, The: Exposed (2002) (Video)
  • Police State 2: The Takeover (2000) (Video)
  • Police State 2000 (1999) (Video)
  • Police State 3: Total Enslavement (2003) (Video)
  • Aftermath: Unanswered Questions from 9/11 (2003) (Video)
  • America: Wake Up (or Waco) (2000) (Video)
  • Best of Alex Jones, The (2000) (Video)
  • InfoWars: Music from the Films of Alex Jones by Graham Reynolds & the Golden Arm Trio (2007) (CD)
  • Matrix of Evil: Exposed (2003) (Video)
Actor

Books

Publisher
  • Order Out of Chaos: Elite Sponsored Terrorism and the New World Order by Paul Joseph Watson (2003)
Writer
  • 9-11: Descent Into Tyranny (2002)

Criticism

In July 2000, a group of ACAC (Austin Community Access Center) programmers alleged that their freedom -- specifically, their right to free speech and to disagree with Jones -- was threatened, by what they called Jones' heavy-handed tactics. The programmers' allegations -- which they made public by both broadcasting them on ACAC shows and posting them on Web pages -- were that Jones used both ACAC policy and legal maneuvers to intimidate them or get them thrown off the air.

Tensions between Jones and others active in the local public access broadcasting scene culminated in what has become known as the Parking Lot Incident - because it occurred in the Parking Lot of the broadcasting center. Jones makes occasional nebulous references to this incident in his broadcasts, implying that he was assaulted by nameless dark forces of the New World Order in an attempt to shut him up. Alternative accounts of the incident exist, however, notably that of Shelly Tumbelson, who claims that Jones himself initiated the incident by challenging a blind man (who had insulted Jones by calling him Jarhead) to a fight; that someone else then offered to take the blind man's place, and fought with Jones in the parking lot, beating him up badly. [22]

References

  1. ^ Rosell, Rich, Dark days, the Alex Jones interview, digitallyobsessed.com, 27 November 2006, retrieved 27 August 2008
  2. ^ Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Show. August 28, 2006.
  3. ^ a b PACT Channel 10 Programming Schedule. Accessed 26 April 2006.
  4. ^ Kelley, Mike (April 17, 1999). "Alex Jones: preaching the conspiracy gospel at a station near you". Austin American-Statesman (TX). p. A13. Archived from the original (Reprint) on 1999-05-17. Retrieved 2008-05-20. It's certainly not difficult to lay the label of conspiracy theorist on him. {{cite news}}: |archive-date= / |archive-url= timestamp mismatch; 1999-05-08 suggested (help)
  5. ^ Black, Louis (2000-07-14). "Unknown Title". Page Two. Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-05-20. Jones is an articulate, sometimes hypnotic, often just annoying conspiracy theorist.
  6. ^ Nichols, Lee (2000-07-14). "Alex Jones: Conspiracy Victim or Evil Mastermind?". Media Clips. Austin Chronicle. Retrieved 2008-05-20. Alex Jones is no stranger to conspiracy theories.
  7. ^ Duggan, Paul (2001-10-26). "Austin Hears the Music And Another New Reality; In Texas Cultural Center, People Prepare to Fight Terror" (Fee required). Washington Post. p. A22. Retrieved 2008-05-20. [His cable show] has made the exuberant, 27-year-old conspiracy theorist a minor celebrity in Austin.
  8. ^ Author Unknown (2003-01-24). "Questions and answers: Local activist Alex Jones talks about surveillance, movies" (FAQ). University of Texas at Austin: The Daily Texan. Retrieved 2008-05-20. This week, Q&A returns with Austin's favorite activist/conspiracy theorist Alex Jones. {{cite news}}: |author= has generic name (help)
  9. ^ "Conspiracy Files: 9/11 - Q&A: What really happened" (FAQ). BBC News. 2007-02-16. Retrieved 2008-05-19. Leading conspiracy theorist and broadcaster Alex Jones of infowars.com argues that ...
  10. ^ Jones, Alex. Coast to Coast AM. January 27, 2007.
  11. ^ Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Radio Show. February 6, 2006.
  12. ^ a b Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  13. ^ Jones, Alex (2006-02-23). "The Port Sell-Out and the Dismantling of America". PrisonPlanet.com. Retrieved 2007-08-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  14. ^ The Austin Chronicle: News: Media Clips: Alex Jones Gets the Boot from KJFK-FM
  15. ^ Best of Austin 1999 Readers Poll, 1999, retrieved 2007-08-14
  16. ^ Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". {{cite web}}: Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help)
  17. ^ A Man on the Hot Seat | Texas Weekly
  18. ^ Payton, Laura (2006-06-08). "Bilderberg-bound filmmaker held at airport". The Ottawa Citizen. Retrieved 2007-08-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  19. ^ Grace, Melissa (2007-09-09). "Filmmaker arrested during city protest". Retrieved 2007-09-10. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |coauthors= ignored (|author= suggested) (help)
  20. ^ [1] The Alex Jones Show
  21. ^ "Cast of "A Scanner Darkly" at IMDB".
  22. ^ http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=77932
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