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Alex Jones
File:Alex Jones On Bullhorn.jpg
BornAlexander Emerick Jones
(1974-02-11) February 11, 1974 (age 50)
Dallas, Texas, U.S.
Occupation(s)Radio host, television host, film producer
Known forConspiracy theories
SpouseViolet Nichols
WebsiteInfoWars.com
PrisonPlanet.com
InfoWars.net
PrisonPlanet.tv
The Jones Report
TruthNews.us

Alexander Emerick Jones (born February 11 1974) is an American paleoconservative radio host and filmmaker who is best known for his promotion of conspiracy theories.

Biography

Jones was born in Parkland Hospital in Dallas, Texas, and grew up in the suburb of Rockwall. He graduated from Anderson High School in northwest Austin, Texas in 1993 and briefly attended Austin Community College.

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. In 1997, he released his first documentary-style film, America Destroyed By Design.

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 that were murdered by Attorney General Janet Reno and the ATF (Bureau of Alcohol, Tobacco, Firearms and Explosives) in the infamous Waco Siege.

In 1999, he tied with Shannon Burke for that year's "Best Austin Talk Radio Host" poll as voted by The Austin Chronicle readers. 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. 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."

In early 2000 Jones was a Republican candidate for state representative in Texas House District 48, a swing district based in Austin, Texas. Jones however aborted his campaign and withdrew before the March primary. He claimed he did not want to disclose personal information on mandatory campaign finance reports. Critics stated his departure was due to poor polling results and an overall lack of voter support. Democrat Ann Kitchen won the seat in the November election.

Also in 2000, Jones and assistant Mike Hanson infiltrated the Bohemian Grove and filmed the opening weekend ceremony, known as the Cremation of Care, a mock human sacrifice in front of a 40' stone owl, which he believes has Pagan origins. His footage can be viewed in his film Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove.

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.

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,”

Jones has appeared in two Richard Linklater movies as an actor: Waking Life (2001) and A Scanner Darkly (2006).

Media productions

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Alex Jones Show

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The Alex Jones Show is a nationally syndicated news / talk show based out of Austin, TX. The show is syndicated by the Genesis Communication Network on over 60 AM and FM radio stations across the United States, as well as having a large internet based audience. The show broadcasts Monday through Friday from 11 a.m. to 2 p.m. CST. Alex Jones also has a late afternoon Sunday radio show aired on Emmis Communications' KLBJ 590 AM in Austin. The show is nationally syndicated in association with Genesis Communications Network.

Notable guests have included:

Regular guests have included Dylan Avery, William Rodriguez, Professor Steven E. Jones, Aaron Russo, David Ray Griffin, Jeff Rense, David Icke, Jim Marrs, Mike Rivero, Webster Tarpley, and David Shayler.

On March 20, 2006, he had Charlie Sheen as a guest on his talk show. The interview received mainstream media coverage and commentary by CNN Showbiz Tonight, Fox News' Hannity & Colmes, and Jimmy Kimmel Live.

Websites

In June 2001, Jones launched Prisonplanet.com. He also maintains a network of related websites, with a central site at Infowars.com. In April 2004, Jones debuted Prisonplanet.tv, a subscription-based site which provides access to his films, radio interview archives, clips from his cable access television show, and digital versions of books he has written. His affiliates run Infowars.net and Infowarsnetwork.com, a hosting service. Jones also maintains Jonesreport.com (a take on the Drudge Report).

Videos

Jones has produced a series of videos about what he believes is the emergence of a totalitarian world government, based on what he views as the erosion of the United States' national sovereignty and its civil liberties, as well as the misuse of government power, corporate deception, and cohesion between disparate power structures.

Filmography

Director/Producer
  • America: Destroyed By Design (1997): Jones' travels the United States and discusses how he feels the country's sovereignty is being subordinated to global interests.
  • America: Wake Up (Or Waco) (2000): Covers the 1993 Waco Siege incident with the Branch Davidians as well as Jones rebuilding the Mount Carmel church.
  • Comprehensive Annual Financial Reports Exposed (2000): Interviews Commodity Trading Advisor (CTA) Walter Burien.
  • Dark Secrets: Inside Bohemian Grove (2000): Covers Jones' infiltration of the annual gathering at the Bohemian Club's Bohemian Grove compound in 2000.
  • Police State 2000 (2000): First in a three-part series. Focuses on the alleged militarization of American law enforcement.
  • Police State 2: The Takeover (2000): Second in a three-part series. Jones says that the American people are too accepting of a highly controlled society.
  • 9-11: The Road to Tyranny (2002): Jones says that most major 20th and 21st century terrorist attacks were orchestrated by governments, including the September 11, 2001 attacks.
  • The Masters of Terror (2002): Jones explains why he believes the elite are using manufactured terrorism to get the population to go along with pre-planned wars in an effort to grab the world's remaining natural resources.
  • The Matrix of Evil (2003): Footage of speeches and conversations with Alex Jones, Congressman Ron Paul, Colonel Craig Roberts, former US representative Cynthia McKinney, and activist Frank Morales.
  • Martial Law 9/11: Rise of the Police State (2005): Jones shows what he believes are signs of a growing police state.
  • TerrorStorm: A History of Government-Sponsored Terrorism (2006) Jones covers what he believes are terrorist attacks induced by governments throughout history, most particularly the 7 July 2005 London bombings. In 2007 an extended version was released featuring 17 minutes of new material: TerrorStorm: Final Cut Special Edition, Re-Mixed + Re-Mastered
Actor

Media appearances

He has been featured as a prominent figure of the 9/11 Truth Movement in such publications as The New York Times, Vanity Fair, and Popular Mechanics.

In September 2007, he was part of the History Channel Documentary 9/11 Fact or Fiction, which examined the various conspiracy theories espoused on the Internet. The History Channel’s synopsis reads in part: “Each conspiracy argument is countered by a variety of experts in the fields of engineering, intelligence and the military. The program also delves into the anatomy of such conspiracies and how they grow on the Internet.”

He is a frequent guest of George Noory on Coast to Coast AM, and has appeared on CBC, Fox News Channel, The Washington Post, WorldNetDaily, USA Today, San Antonio Express-News, Austin American-Statesman, The Alan Colmes Show, and C-SPAN.

See also

References

  1. Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Show. August 28 2006.
  2. Jones, Alex. Coast to Coast AM. January 27 2007.
  3. Jones, Alex. The Alex Jones Radio Show. February 6 2006.
  4. ^ Nichols, Lee (December 10, 1999). "Psst, It's a Conspiracy: KJFK Gives Alex Jones the Boot Media Clips". {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help); Unknown parameter |Publisher= ignored (|publisher= suggested) (help) Cite error: The named reference "KJFK" was defined multiple times with different content (see the help page).
  5. 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)
  6. http://www.austinchronicle.com/gyrobase/Issue/column?oid=oid:75039
  7. Best of Austin 1999 Readers Poll, 1999, retrieved 2007-08-14
  8. 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)
  9. 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)
  10. PACT Channel 10 Programming Schedule. Accessed 26 April, 2006.
  11. Edwards, David (2007-05-30). "Ex-CIA analyst: Forged 'yellowcake' memo 'leads right back to' Cheney". The Raw Story. Retrieved 2007-08-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  12. Watson, Paul Joseph (2007-07-09). "Top Global Warming Advocate: Jupiter & Saturn Closer To Sun Than Earth". Prison Planet. Retrieved 2007-08-13. {{cite news}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  13. "Cindy Sheehan: Twin Towers' Collapse Looked Like Controlled Demolition". Prison Planet. 2007-05-31. Retrieved 2007-05-31. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  14. http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio.html
  15. http://www.prisonplanet.tv/audio_archive/april_2007.htm
  16. Feuer, Alan (June 5th), "500 Conspiracy Buffs Meet To Seek the Truth of 9/11", New York Times, pp. Section B, Page 1, Column 1 {{citation}}: Check |author-link= value (help); Check date values in: |date= and |year= / |date= mismatch (help); External link in |author-link= (help)
  17. americanscholarssymposium.org
  18. http://www.history.com/shows.do?action=detail&episodeId=240087 9/11 Conspiracies - Fact or Fiction
  19. WorldNetDaily - February 15, 1999 -- Fear and loathing in Kingsville, Texas
  20. September 20 1999
  21. September 20 1999
  22. "Alex Jones discusses 9/11 on the Alan Colmes show". PrisonPlanet.com. 2006-04-02. Retrieved 2007-08-14. {{cite web}}: Check date values in: |date= (help)
  23. prisonplanet.tv

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