Thomas Jones
 Thomas Jones    (businessman) | |
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| Born | July 21, 1920 |
| Died | January 7, 2014 (Age 93) |
| Nationality | US |
| Alma mater | Stanford University |
| Member of | Bohemian Grove, California Club, Council on Foreign Relations/Historical Members, The 1001 Club |
US military-industrial businessman who attended the 1966 and the 1987 Bilderbergs. | |
Thomas Victor Jones was an American businessman. He was the Chairman and Chief Executive Officer of Northrop Corporation. He retired as chief executive in 1989 after a bribery scandal surrounding the marketing of fighter planes to South Korea.
Early life
Born in Pomona, California, he graduated magna cum laude in engineering from Stanford University.
Career
He went to work at Douglas Aircraft Company in 1942. He worked for the Brazilian Air Ministry to create the Aeronautical Institute of Technology from 1947 to 1951. Around 1953 he went to work for the RAND Corporation where he published a study on transport planes for the U.S. Air Force. That same year he joined Northrop as assistant to the chief engineer, rose to be the president in 1959, chief executive officer in 1960 and chairman of the board in 1963.
He was on the cover of Time magazine on October 27, 1961.[1] He received the Reed Aeronautics Award in 1985 and the Wright Brothers Memorial Trophy of the National Aeronautic Association in 1989. He was inducted into the National Aviation Hall of Fame in 1999.
In May 1974 he pled guilty to making illegal corporate donations to Nixon's Committee to Re-elect the President and resigned from many of his non-Northrop positions including trustee of Stanford University.[2] He retired as chief executive of Northrop in 1989 after being reprimanded by the board of directors for his role in a bribery scandal surrounding the marketing the F-20 fighter to South Korea.[3]
Personal life
He was married to Ruth Jones, who died in July 2013. They had two children, Peter Thomas and Ruth Marilyn. In 1959, Jones and his wife purchased Moraga Estate in Bel Air, Los Angeles, formerly owned by film director Victor Fleming [4] and later bought by Rupert Murdoch.[5][6][7][8] They turned the estate into a vineyard, by planting a terraced vineyard in 1978.[4][9][7][8] In 2013, it was purchased by Rupert Murdoch, chairman and chief executive officer of the News Corporation, after he saw an advertisement in a newspaper he owns, The Wall Street Journal.[9][7]
On January 7, 2014, Thomas V. Jones died of pulmonary fibrosis at his home in Los Angeles. He was 93.[10]
Events Participated in
| Event | Start | End | Location(s) | Description |
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| Bilderberg/1966 | 25 March 1966 | 27 March 1966 | Germany Wiesbaden Hotel Nassauer Hof | Top of the agenda of the 15th Bilderberg in Wiesbaden, Germany, was the restructuring of NATO. Since this discussion was held, all permanent holders of the position of NATO Secretary General have attended at least one Bilderberg conference prior to their appointment. |
| Bilderberg/1987 | 24 April 1987 | 26 April 1987 | Italy Cernobbio | 35th Bilderberg, in Italy, 106 participants |
References
- ↑ Time Magazine cover
- ↑ http://stanforddailyarchive.com/cgi-bin/stanford?a=d&d=stanford19740515-02.2.4&e=-------en-20--1--txt-txIN-------
- ↑ A Reprimand At Northrop, The New York Times, March 8, 1989
- ↑ a b http://www.moragavineyards.com/history.php
- ↑ S. Irene Virbila, Moraga Vineyards in Bel Air for sale, The Los Angeles Times, February 08, 2013
- ↑ Dan Berger, Moraga Vineyards: Appellation Controlee Bel Air, The Los Angeles Times, January 09, 1992
- ↑ a b c Tim Fish, Media Mogul Rupert Murdoch Buys Moraga Vineyards, Wine Spectator, May 13, 2013
- ↑ a b Charles Lewis Sullivan, A Companion to California Wine: An Encyclopedia of Wine and Winemaking from the Mission Period to the Present, Berkeley, California: University of California Press, 1998, p. 224 [1]
- ↑ a b http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/envelope/cotown/la-et-ct-rupert-murdoch-buys-bel-airs-moraga-vineyard-20130510,0,114629.story
- ↑ https://www.latimes.com/local/obituaries/la-me-thomas-jones-20140109-story.html
