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Jack Perkins Biography
Jack Perkins is an American reporter, commentator, war correspondent, and anchorman. He has been nicknamed”America’s most literate correspondent” by the Associated Press.
Jack Perkins Age
Jack was born December 28, 1933 in Cleveland, Ohio. He is 85 years old as of 2018.
Jack Perkins Family
Jack was in Cleveland, Ohio. Information about his parents and siblings is not yet known, since he has never mentioned it.
Jack Perkins Education
Jack received a Bachelor of Arts degree in political science from Case Western Reserve University in 1956. While at Case Western Reserve, Perkins joined the Fraternity of Phi Gamma Delta.
Jack Perkins Wife
Jack has wife known as Mary Jo. Jack and his wife moved from Los Angeles population eight million to a tidal island off the coast in Maine, population zero. Years earlier, in the shadow of Acadia National Park, they had built a solar-powered cabin, heated only by a wood stove. But now the couple was moving there for good, abandoning the smog of L.A. for the fog of Bar Harbor. Their move would turn out to be as spiritual as it was physical. In the quiet of the woods, surrounded by water and wildlife, Jack became aware of God in a way that seemed impossible when he was covering the biggest news stories of our time. His son, Eric Perkins, has followed him into journalism, serving as Sports Director at KARE-TV, the NBC affiliate station in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
Jack Perkins NBC
Jack has appeared on NBC Nightly News and The Today Show, and on A&E as host of Biography. He hosted A Gulf Coast Journal, a weekly magazine show until 2012,which aired on Tampa, Florida PBS member station WEDU-TV. Jack also hosts and narrates special programs on Chattanooga, Tennessee PBS member station WTCI-TV. Initially he was a news reporter for NBC affiliate KNBC, in Los Angeles, California.
He dedicate a great deal of his time to creating original photography and poetry which he brings together in books, recent titles including Island Prayers: Photographs and Poems of Praise (2006) and Nature of God: Exploring Nature to meet the Creator.
His 2013 book, Finding Moosewood, Finding God tells of the period in his life between 1984 and 1999 that he and his wife Mary Jo, lived on Bar Island off Acadia National Park in Maine to live a simple life, and there found God.
His son, Eric Perkins, has followed him into journalism, serving as Sports Director at KARE-TV, the NBC affiliate station in Minneapolis-St. Paul, Minnesota.
Jack Perkins Book
Jack sacrifice a great deal of his time to creating original photography and poetry which he brings together in books, recent titles including Island Prayers: Photographs and Poems of Praise (2006) and Nature of God: Exploring Nature to meet the Creator.
Jack’s 2013 book, Finding Moosewood, Finding God tells of the period in his life between 1984 and 1999 that he and his wife Mary Jo, lived on Bar Island off Acadia National Park in Maine to live a simple life, and there found God.
Jack Perkins Net Worth
Jack has an estimated net worth of about $71,3 .