Charles Jaco, Date of Birth, Place of Birth
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American journalist
Date of Birth: 21-Aug-1950
Place of Birth: Poplar Bluff, Missouri, United States
Profession: journalist
Nationality: United States
Zodiac Sign: Leo 
About Charles Jaco
- Charles Jaco (born August 21, 1950) is an American journalist and author, best known for his coverage of Iraq's invasion of Kuwait and the ensuing Gulf War.
- Jaco was born August 21, 1950 in Poplar Bluff, Missouri. He graduated from the University of Chicago in 1973 and earned 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 NBC 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 CNN.
- 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 U.S.
- military.
- While covering the Gulf War for CNN in 1991, he proposed to fellow CNN correspondent Pat Neal.
- He left CNN in 1994 and joined KMOX.He authored Dead Air, a novel about the Gulf War, and Live Shot, a novel set in Cuba.
- 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 2003 he became a reporter and anchor for KTVI television in St.
- 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 August 2013 Jaco interviewed then U.S.
- Representative and senatorial candidate Todd Akin on The Jaco Report in which Akin controversially claimed that women rarely become pregnant from "legitimate rape." Jaco left KTVI in 2014.
- Jaco writes regular columns for the St.
- Louis American.
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