Bob Jones:  

School: I left Sharpsburg in 1960 when we moved to Shaler. College I took a few classes at Robert Morris. Military: I joined the US Air Force in the fall after graduation from Shaler High School. I picked up some Air Force Institute classes. I was trained at Chanute AFB Ill. and was stationed in Rome N.Y. Strategic Air Command. I didn't like the cold weather up there and put in for a transfer to a warmer climate. They sent me to Vietnam for two years. 1965-1967. Workplace: When I got back from Vietnam my cousin who worked as a Special Agent for the FBI told me the Bureau was interested in recruiting new Special Agents and with my military background, I was what they were looking for. I took the exam and passed. In 1967 I entered Agents training in Washington DC. During training I worked in the Crime Records Division, and one of my jobs was to pick replacements on the Top Ten Fugitives program. I met my wife PJ in the Justice Department building. She would bring me files for review. In the early 1970s two of our friends were killed, that was a little too close to home and my pregnant wife forced me to resign from the Bureau. I took a sales position with a packaging company back here in Pittsburgh. In the later 1970's after we had moved back to Pittsburgh, I was contacted by KDKA TV. They were looking for a body to film at various Pittsburgh restaurants; (someone mysterious), and I interviewed for the job. Out of 600 men they narrowed it down to three and each of us filmed a restaurant; when the smoke cleared, I became Evening Magazines Phantom Diner. Mike Kolina was the critic and the voice; but I was the body in the trench coat, sunglasses, and fedora. I got to meet a lot of celebrities I never would have met and ate a lot of things I never would have ordered! One of the shoots was filmed at Pepis Restaurant on th...Expand for more