AUSTIN — It was the winter of 1997 and Alex Jones couldn't stop getting punched in the face. Out on the cracked asphalt of Austin Public Access Television's parking lot, under the sprawling Texas live oaks, Jones was very much losing a fight to a man known affectionately in Austin's alternative media scene as “SpaceHitler.” According to multiple reports and interviews with two eyewitnesses, for months, SpaceHitler — real name: Clayton Counts — had been prank-calling Jones' largely unsuccessful public-access TV show and mocking the exasperated host as “Jarhead Jones” until his call was disconnected. On this particular day, Counts and a gaggle of friends showed up to an ACTV open house with the intention of taunting the 22-year-old host in person. According to one witness, Counts's crew traded insults with Jones for a few minutes until one of Counts's friends started back in with Jones' least favorite barb: Jarhead. That's when Jones asked them to "step outside." It’s not entirely clear just what happened next — a police report tells only Jones' side of the story — but witnesses to the brawl said the broadcaster bolted to his car, rummaged under his driver's seat, and mimed tucking something in… Read full this story
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