Background
Jaco was born August 21, 1950 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
Jaco was born August 21, 1950 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri.
He graduated from The University of Chicago in 1973, and received a Master"s degree from Columbia University in 1976.
In 1976, he began his broadcast career with WXRT radio in Chicago, Illinois. He worked for National Broadcasting Company Network Radio from 1979 until 1988. In 1987, he was badly beaten by the security forces of Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega.
In late 1988, he became a correspondent for Cable News Network. In 1989 while covering allegations of electoral fraud by the Panamanian government, Jaco was visited by vigilantes of Noriega.
He fled the country with the aid of the United States. military. While covering the Gulf War for Cable News Network in 1991, he proposed to fellow Cable News Network correspondent Pat Neal.
He left Cable News Network in 1994 and joined KMOX. He authored Dead Air, a novel about the Gulf War, and Live Shot, a novel set in Cuba. In 2003 he became a reporter and anchor for KTVI television in Saint Louis, Missouri, while hosting the station"s The Jaco Report.
In 2009, he began work at the radio station KTRS 550, doing a daily morning talk show, also titled The Jaco Report.
In February 2010 Jaco allegedly bumped into conservative blogger Adam Sharp. Based on Sharp"s video of the encounter, the city prosecutor declined to pursue charges against Jaco. In October 2010, Jaco was replaced by J.C. Corcoran at KTRS.
In 2002, he authored The Complete Idiot"s Guide to the Gulf War, and in 2003 co-authored The Complete Idiot"s Guide to the Politics of Oil. In August 2013 Jaco interviewed United States. Representative Todd Akin on The Jaco Report in which Akin controversially claimed that women rarely become pregnant from "legitimate rape." Jaco left KTVI in 2014.