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THE JONES BOYS ARE OFF AGAIN
NBC-TV's Fabulous Newsreel Cameramen Leaving on European Assignment
Charles and Eugene Jones, the 25-year-old twin cameramen of NBC's television staff who have been responsible for most of the sensational newsreels of the Korean War you've been seeing on "The Camel News Caravan, " are scheduled to leave in late January for a new assignment — this time in Europe.
They plan to cover just about every accessible* country on the continent, taking films about ECA, Atlantic Pact defenses and handling news stories ' as they arise, for NBC TV's program "Battle Report.
I ^ I One is inclined to grow a little uneasy about
the European situation now that the Jones Boys are going there, what with their unique ability to be "there" when a hot news story breaks. They started earning this reputation at 16, when they landed jobs as copy boys on separate Washington papers. The twins were only 17 when they became the youngest regular news photographers in the capital. When they were 18 they joined the Marine: as combat photographers, and landed with the first waves on Iwo Jima and Tarawa.
At the outbreak of hostilities in Korea, NBC called the twins up from their civilian jobs with the Washington Times-Herald and sent them directly to Pusan, where they proceeded to take their cameras right up to the front lines — and beyond.
Among their exclusives were the first films ever made from jet fighters in combat and the only films of the Inchon landing. It was during the latter that Gene Jones was wounded in the chest by shrapnel.
Shortly after their return to the United States, the Jones twins spoke at a meeting of the Overseas Press Club at Toots Shor's. Under the head "This Is a Story Which the Editor Cannot Cover, " the Bulletin of the Overseas Press Club told of how at the meeting "more than half a hundred veteran newsmen listened motionless — some with tears in their eyes - while a couple of kids told about the war in Korea. " The Jones Boys are not professional public speakers, but they were talking of a world they knew. As Gene said, "A dark and bloody world you can't know unless you * re there. "
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