Charles Jaco
Charles Jaco gained worldwide fame with his reports of SCUD attacks on Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. During a career with NBC, CNN, and CBS, Jaco has covered nine wars, a half-dozen riots, and countless earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. He has also covered Congress, the White House, the Pentagon, and various intelligence agencies. He was declared an Enemy of the State by Manuel Noriega, and persona non grata by regimes in Iraq and the Sudan. He has won two Edward R. Murrow awards, six...See more
Charles Jaco gained worldwide fame with his reports of SCUD attacks on Saudi Arabia during the Gulf War. During a career with NBC, CNN, and CBS, Jaco has covered nine wars, a half-dozen riots, and countless earthquakes, floods, and hurricanes. He has also covered Congress, the White House, the Pentagon, and various intelligence agencies. He was declared an Enemy of the State by Manuel Noriega, and persona non grata by regimes in Iraq and the Sudan. He has won two Edward R. Murrow awards, six National Headliner awards, and two dozen other national and international journalism awards; two programs on which he worked have received the prestigious George Foster Peabody Award. He has written for dozens of publications, including Rolling Stone, the Chicago Tribune, the Boston Globe, and the Miami Herald. He currently hosts his own radio show on KMOX in St. Louis. This is his first novel. See less