Jones became Assistant U.S. Attorney in 1969 and given control of the trial docket . In March 1970 he was promoted to First Assistant by U.S. Attorney Robert B. Krupansky . The Kent State shootings were investigated . Jones , as a member of the Drug Abuse Committee of the Cleveland Area Coordinating Counsel , participated in the Narcotic Addict Rehabilitation Program which led to the creation of an Addiction medicine center at University Circle , Cleveland . Jones also assisted in ending the U.S. postal strike of 1970 . National attention was received by the investigations into the conspiracy to slay labor leader Joseph Yablonski . A nationwide F.B.I. investigation produced sufficient evidence to charge three Cleveland area residents with conspiracy to slay Yablonski . Through Grand Jury proceedings , a series of three conspiracy indictments were returned charging five individuals . The investigation was conducted by Krupansky , assisted by Jones . Former United Mine Worker 's president W. A. Boyle was eventually indicted by a Grand Jury on a charge of conspiring to murder Joseph A. Yablonski , his rival for the union leadership in 1969 . Yablonski 's wife and daughter were also slain . Boyle was convicted
Kent State shootings
Kent State shootings
Robert Jones (Ohio lawyer)