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Biography
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Louis Worth Jones, a retired management analyst and self-employed human relations journalist, was born in St. Louis, Missouri in 1908. After attending Washington University at St. Louis, he was an administrative officer for the Farm Security Administration of the U.S. Department of Agriculture until 1946. Jones served as a management
analyst for the War Assets Administration, 1946-48; the Atomic Energy Commission,
Los Alamos, New Mexico, 1948-50; and U.S. Navy Radiological Defense Laboratory,
San Francisco, California, 1950-68. He
edited and published the Lou Jones Newsletter, 1959-70, which dealt with the subject of intergroup relations. He was founder and executive director of the Intergroup Relations Association of Northern California, 1964-73. Jones was co-founder of the Unitarian Universalist Church in San Mateo,
California. He is the author of the question and answer scripts "Meet Mary
Wollstonecraft" (1977), "Meet Alexander Meiklejohn" (1978), and "Servetus:
Why Did He Die?" (1977). His lectures on free speech include "The Great
Deception" (1987) and "So You Think We Have Democracy?" (1988). He is co-founder
and Trustee Emeritus of The World University. Biographed in Marquis' Who's
Who In The World and Marquis' Who's Who In America (future 2000 edition).
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