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He graduated from John C. Fremont High school in Los Los Angeles
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Ken Jones
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He was Los Angeles television"s first black weeknight news anchor, working for Los Angeles television station KTTV-television channel 11 and KNXT channel 2. Jones was known for his reports on the 1965 Watts riots and the assassination of Senator. Robert F. Kennedy in 1968.
In 1992, Ken was diagnosed with bladder cancer and after a short battle with the disease, died in May 1993.
The oldest of three children, Ken was born to Georgia Wood Jones and Henry Leon Jones in Los Angeles, California. In 1992, Jones was diagnosed with bladder cancer and after a short battle with the disease, died in May 1993.
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 Los Angeles in 1962.
His growing prominence led to numerous television and film roles including The Candidate (1972) and The Brady Bunch (1972) (television).
Ken worked as a reporter and weekend anchor at KNXT now KCBS-television Los Angeles in 1980. "The Brady Bunch" The Liberation of Marcia Brady - Newscaster (1971)
"McMillan & Wife" - Newscaster 3 Episodes (1972–1974)
"Police Woman" - Newscaster (1977)
"The Young Runaways" - Mike Carruthers (1978)
"Matt Houston" - reporter (1983).
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Regina is the granddaughter of William Nickerson Junior., co-founder of Golden State Mutual Life Insurance Company. He worked as a production assistant for the West Coast edition of the Huntley-Brinkley Report from 1963-1965 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, then was promoted to weeknight Anchor at KTTV-television 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.
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