David Jones

David Ross Jones is Alex Jones' father, the former head of human resources at InfoWars, and likely one of the main people to blame for how Alex turned out.

A lot of the available information about David Jones is of a dubious nature, because it is coming from Alex, who takes hero-worshiping a father to irresponsible extremes.

Alex has claimed that his dad was the "sixth smartest person in Texas" as a teen, and because he was so smart, the "Globalists" offered to bring him into their evil scheme to take over the world. However, because David Jones is an honorable man, he rejected their offer.

This is obviously a completely absurd claim, which would require us to believe that: 1) there was statewide testing of "who is the smartest kid," 2) the "Globalists" were behind the test and it was just for recruitment, 3) the "Globalists" told the potential recruits about their big, evil plans before the recruit had decided to join up or not, and 4) if the recruit decided against joining, these "Globalists" did literally nothing to prevent them from disseminating all their big, evil, secret plans. That is not how an actual organization would ever operate, but it is how a dumb child would brag about their dad to other kids.

Alex has also claimed that his dad worked for the CIA, but when he gets into the details, the only real thing Alex ever points to is that David Jones may have been a dentist for a couple CIA agents in the past, which is in no way equivalent to being in the CIA. Most conspiracy theory sites accept this claim that Alex is making at face-value, with no evidence that David was ever involved in Intelligence. From everything official, it appears he has always been a dentist.

History as a Dentist

His license to practice dentistry is a publicly available document, and from it, you can glean some important information. For instance, we learn that David was born in 1950, and graduated from dental school in 1978, four years after Alex was born. David was 24 years old when Alex was born, which would have been just a short time after he finished his primary undergraduate studies.

It appears that he did his undergraduate course work at University of Texas at Austin. In the UT-Austin yearbook (The Cactus) for 1970, his name is listed as a member in an honor society on campus. In the 1968 yearbook, it appears that he is listed as being a member of both the Silver Spurs and The Order Of The Alcalde, two innocent student life groups with names suspicious enough to make any conspiracy theorist start getting excited (for the record, "The Alcalde" is the name of UT's alumni magazine).

After he graduated from Baylor College of Dentistry (now known as Texas A&M College of Dentistry), he was immediately awarded a license to practice on June 22, 1978. His license has been active ever since, and is set to expire in August 2023 .

In November 2015, he did receive a warning from the Texas Board of Dental Examiners. The issue sprang from a complaint they'd received about his practice. According to the Board's determination: "Respondent [David Jones] fell below the minimum standard of care during the dental treatment of a patient. Specifically, Respondent recommended and performed root canal therapy plus post and core on patient's tooth number 22 when the tooth should have been extracted because it was structurally too far decayed to successfully treat with a root canal. Respondent extracted tooth number 22 twenty-three (23) days after performing the root canal."

They further found that he had failed to keep adequate records about the patient. Taking all of the facts into consideration, they determined that he needed to compensate the patient $600 to make up for what was charged for the procedure, and he was fined $3,000 by the Board. David Jones was also required to take 14 hours of continuing education regarding ethics and bookkeeping, as well as just dentistry.

At some point, David Jones gave Alex $20,000 to help him get InfoWars off the ground.

Oil Property

David Jones is not just a dentist, he is also the owner of a decent amount of pretty valuable property.

From as early as 1983, David was leasing at least one oil well to Marathon Oil for an undisclosed sum. The well was located in Freestone, TX, a county approximately 100 miles south of Dallas. Generally the way those arrangements work is that the landowner gets a certain percentage of the value of the oil yield, so if his well was producing even a small number of barrels, he could have been raking in a very large sum from this lease.

Interestingly on September 21, 2015, Marathon decided to sell 100% of its working interest in Freestone County, TX, which would include David's lease. From here, it is unclear if the lease got bought by another oil company, or if the well is just out of service now.

David Jones also owns at least 12 additional mineral interests in Freestone County. These all represent oil rights that he is leasing, and their appraisal history tells a very interesting story.

David's mineral interests in Freestone County have been appraised every year, and the valuation of his property has dropped from $52,120 in 2015 to $21,740 in 2017, representing an over 50% drop in value. For many of the interests, it appears that the situation is that the oil is running dry. For instance, his stake in "CUNNINGHAM -A- (05)" was worth $2,020 in 2015 and only $30 in 2017. That precipitous a drop is indicative of a property that is just not producing much oil anymore. It does not appear that these drops can be related to the price of oil, because if that were the case, we would see far more uniform drops between his interests, as well as uniform drops for other interest holders in neighboring properties, and this just is not the pattern we see. The pattern is that David Jones' land is depreciating very quickly between 2015 and 2017.

David Jones oil value over time

This is still only the difference between revenue of about $2000 in 2015 vs. almost nothing in 2018. For a marginally successful dentist, that is not "make-or-break money," but that cannot be said of the situation in 2008, when oil prices shot through the roof based on a confluence of events that led the market toward thinking the supply was going to be crippled as demand was increasing. As the price went up, the value of David Jones' interests sky-rocketed, bringing in an estimated $110,000 between March and April of 2008. May's revenue held at around $50,000, but then the market started to correct itself, and by December his take was down to around $14,000. By February 2009, it was down to about $8,500.

Head of HR at Infowars

In 2018, when two of Alex's former employees filed EEOC complaints against Alex, we learned that Dr. David Jones had presumably left dentistry behind, and was now acting as the "Head of Human Resources" for InfoWars. He appears to have zero training in human resources, nor does he appear to have any experience in the field. At some point after this, David Jones apparently stopped acting as Head of HR.

Involvement with PQPR

The TX TUFTA lawsuit disclosed that David Jones was one of several family members that owned minority shares in PQPR and related shell companies. After the lawsuit was filed, he was removed as an owner, presumably to try and limit his exposure once the PQPR scheme was found out.

Relevant Episodes by Release Date

No.	Title	Coverage start date	Coverage end date	Air date	Episode type
56	56: July 22-Aug 11, 2015	July 22, 2015	August 11, 2015	June 23, 2017	2015 Investigation
98	98: May 2-3, 2012	May 2, 2012	May 3, 2012	October 30, 2017	Time Travel
101	101: January 11, 2016	January 11, 2016	January 11, 2016	November 13, 2017	2016 Investigation
104	104: November 20, 2017	November 20, 2017	November 20, 2017	November 21, 2017	Present Day
105	105: March 18, 2014	March 18, 2014	March 18, 2014	November 22, 2017	Time Travel
109	109: December 4, 2017	December 4, 2017	December 4, 2017	December 5, 2017	Present Day
122	122 LIVE: March 1-2, 2012	March 1, 2012	March 2, 2012	January 24, 2018	Live Show, Time Travel
123	123: March 18, 2008	March 18, 2008	March 18, 2008	January 26, 2018	Time Travel
133	133: Operation Paul Revere			March 5, 2018	Present Day
186	186: February 17-18, 2009	February 17, 2009	February 18, 2009	July 30, 2018	Tea Party Investigation
208	208: March 6-8, 2009	March 6, 2009	March 8, 2009	September 21, 2018	Tea Party Investigation
257	257: January 25, 2019	January 25, 2019	January 25, 2019	January 28, 2019	Present Day
270	270: The Rogan Return			March 1, 2019	Special Edition
326	326: July 26-29, 2019	July 26, 2019	July 29, 2019	July 31, 2019	Present Day
328	328: March 11-12, 2013	March 11, 2013	March 12, 2013	August 5, 2019	Sandy Hook Investigation
338	338: March 27-28, 2013	March 27, 2013	March 28, 2013	September 2, 2019	Sandy Hook Investigation
347	347: September 23, 2019	September 23, 2019	September 23, 2019	September 25, 2019	Present Day
389	389: January 15-17, 2020	January 15, 2020	January 17, 2020	January 20, 2020	Present Day
394	394: January 31, 2020	January 31, 2020	January 31, 2020	February 3, 2020	Present Day
399	399: February 12-14, 2020	February 12, 2020	February 14, 2020	February 17, 2020	Present Day
641	641: Formulaic Objections Part 4			January 26, 2022	Formulaic Objections
685	685: Formulaic Objections Part 7			May 25, 2022	Formulaic Objections
725	725: September 13-14, 2022	September 13, 2022	September 14, 2022	September 16, 2022	Present Day
739	739: Formulaic Objections Part 8			October 21, 2022	Formulaic Objections
750	750: Formulaic Objections Part 11			November 23, 2022	Formulaic Objections
754	754: Formulaic Objections Part 12			December 7, 2022	Formulaic Objections
762	762: December 31, 2022	December 31, 2022	December 31, 2022	January 2, 2023	Present Day
765	765: Formulaic Objections Part 13			January 9, 2023	Formulaic Objections
817	817: June 8, 2023	June 8, 2023	June 8, 2023	June 14, 2023	Present Day
832	832: July 26, 2023	July 26, 2023	July 26, 2023	July 28, 2023	Present Day
839	839: August 16, 2023	August 16, 2023	August 16, 2023	August 18, 2023	Present Day
840	840: August 18, 2023	August 18, 2023	August 18, 2023	August 21, 2023	Present Day
856	856: Live In London (Night 1)	October 30, 2013	October 30, 2013	October 6, 2023	Live Show, Time Travel