Charles Jaco

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Charles Jaco (born August 21, 1950 in Poplar Bluff , Missouri ) is an American journalist who was best known for his coverage of the second Gulf War in 1990 and 1991 for CNN .

Jaco went to the University of Chicago in 1973 and received his Masters from Columbia University in 1976 . In the same year he began his journalistic career with WXRT Radio in Chicago . From 1979 to 1988 he worked for NBC Network Radio , where he won three Peabody Awards .

In 1987 he was severely ill-treated by the security forces of the Panamanian dictator Manuel Noriega . In late 1988 he went to CNN where he covered the Gulf War in 1990 and 1991.

In 1994 he went to KMOX . In 2003 he became a reporter and news anchor for the KTVI television station in St. Louis , where he had the program The Jaco Report . In 2009 he worked for the radio station KTRS 550 with a program of the same title. On October 6, 2010, Jaco resigned from KTRS.

Individual evidence

  1. Jump up ↑ Iraq War: It started with a lie! CNN Fake Newscast Best Quality. Retrieved April 3, 2013 .
  2. ^ A b Charles Jaco. (No longer available online.) Fox2 St. Louis, September 14, 2006, archived from the original on November 4, 2013 ; accessed on December 1, 2013 . Info: The archive link was inserted automatically and has not yet been checked. Please check the original and archive link according to the instructions and then remove this notice. @1@ 2Template: Webachiv / IABot / fox2now.com
  3. ^ Jaco Goes Home to Talk Radio, published in the Chicago Sun-Times on April 20, 1995
  4. ^ Charles Jaco in The Persian Gulf (1991). Retrieved June 21, 2011 .
  5. KTRS hires Corcoran; Jaco out. Retrieved June 21, 2011 .