James C. Jones

James. C. Jones founded Live Free USA in the late 1960s and helped it evolve from an outdoor survival club into a broad-based national preparedness and self-reliance education organization. During the 1970s and 1980s, he was a leading voice in defending and defining responsible survivalism on national television and radio. While interest in self-reliance waned somewhat in the 1990s, he worked to hold the movement together and sustain the networks that still existed. When the events and trends of the 21st century rekindled interest and support for survival education and self-reliance, he became active in the newly titled 'prepper' movement. Jones has developed and conducted hundreds of survival training events and seminars over the past 40 years and has written hundreds of articles for Live Free's newsletter, American Survivor. His is also the author of the Paladin book Beyond Survival.