In media interviews and on his show, Jones has said the family was run out of town because he saw cops selling “cocaine and ecstasy” at parties and spoke out against it at a school assembly. Not long afterward, the Jones family moved to Austin. Jones’ teeth were knocked loose or out, and Jones’ father - a dentist - had to repair the damage through extensive surgery, Morrow told CNN. This time, Morrow and a friend gave Jones a pounding, at one point slamming a rake into his head. Jones and Morrow would soon face off again, at a party. This American Life first reported the incident. Morrow declined to be interviewed on camera, but confirmed that his hearing remains compromised, and he still suffers headaches.
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He suffered nine skull fractures and a full concussion and lost 20% of his hearing in one ear. Morrow was wheeled out of the school and rushed to a nearby hospital. Randy Talley, who was then a teacher and coach at Rockwall High, was there.
It ended with Jones - also a football player - picking Morrow up and pile-driving him headfirst into the floor of a classroom. It began when Jones traded words about a girl with a popular senior - a physically imposing football player named Jarrod “Bubba” Morrow. But the most disturbing story about Jones’ teen years involves a fight at Rockwall High School during his sophomore year, around 1990. On those days, he would stomp around the block wearing shorts and combat boots but no shirt, chanting “like a gorilla,” talking in tongues and muttering gibberish about the devil - often in front of golfers, Durham said. But his mood could flip like a switch, and his behavior in the neighborhood called Lakeside Village beside a golf course was often bizarre, Durham said. Supremely intelligent, he could recite long passages of the Bible from memory.
Former classmates and a teacher told CNN that Jones could seem like a normal high school kid who had plenty of friends in the town of Rockwall. That intense hunger for attention in those early years foreshadowed his persona of a conspiracy fabulist who would not only freely toss out violent rhetoric on his show, but also take kernels of truth about news events and spin them into fantasies with himself at the center - persecuted for fighting a system of corruption. Jones grew up in an upper-middle-class family in the suburbs of Dallas, where his teenage years were marked by a violent streak that may have ultimately prompted his family’s move to Austin, former members of the high school he attended told CNN. Jones then stormed into the family home and appeared on a second-floor balcony above the driveway, where his parents’ minivan was parked, remembers Bo Durham, who was friends with Jones at the time. When Alex Jones was a teenager, he got into an argument with his father in front of several of his high school pals.
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