1929: Enters work with his father's newspaper, the Dayton Daily News.

1931-1938: General Manager of the Dayton Daily News.

1938-1939: Assistant Publisher of the Dayton Daily News.

1939: Accompanies father on first trip to Atlanta after acquisition of the Atlanta Journal.

1942: Defying his father's wishes, Cox joins the navy at age 39. He is ordered into active duty in World War II, serving in the Naval Air Corps.

1945: Discharged from the Navy with the rank of Lt. Commander.

Late 1940s and 1950s: Cox returns from the war and becomes interested in the television industry. Along with director of Cox broadcasting operations J. Leonard Reinsch, Cox urges his reluctant father to purchase television stations in Atlanta in 1948 and Dayton in 1949.

A telegram to the Dayton Daily News reports James Cox Jr.'s commission as Lieutenant in the Navy.
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Wright Bryan, editor of The Atlanta Journal, who broadcast the first report of D-Day to a national radio audience, sits in the booth with James Cox Jr.