Jenkin Lloyd Jones worked for his family's newspaper in Tulsa, Oklahoma, for almost sixty years, beginning as a reporter for his father, Richard Lloyd Jones, in 1933 and rising through the ranks to become publisher of the Tulsa Tribune in 1963. Jones used the pages of his newspaper as well as a syndicated weekly column to discuss pressing concerns in the modern world.

Jenkin Lloyd Jones was born in Madison, Wisconsin, on 1 November 1911, the son of Richard Lloyd Jones and Georgia Hayden Jones. He was named after his paternal grandfather, theologian Jenkin Lloyd Jones. His family moved to Oklahoma in 1919 when his father bought the Tulsa Daily Democrat, changing its name to the Tulsa Tribune. Richard Lloyd Jones, a native of Chicago, Illinois, had been active in journalism, working as a writer for the Washington Times and as an editor for the magazines Cosmopolitan and Collier's Weekly. He had owned...