Jack Owens

Jack Owens is a 30-year veteran of the FBI, a street agent who worked investigations involving foreign counterintelligence, terrorism, fugitive apprehensions, SWAT operations, and the recruitment of women and minorities into the Bureau. He spent a year in the Denver FBI office, 1969-1970, followed by 29 years in the Bureau’s Birmingham Division. He retired in 1999 to write, and is the author of Don’t Shoot! We’re Republicans!—a memoir of his FBI career, published in 2009. He is also the author of the novel, Watchman: JFK’s Last Ride (2013). Owens’s roots are deep in the mountains of southern West Virginia, and in the beautiful borough of West Chester, Pennsylvania. He has resided in Birmingham since 1970, where he lives with his wife, Patricia, atop Red Mountain.