Jack E. Robinson III

On November 20, 2017, Robinson died at his Duxbury home.

Later he entered the wireless telecom industry, where he founded a digital cellular company in the Caribbean—Oceanic Digital Communications (later sold to Mexican businessman Carlos Slim), and traveled to many developing countries, including Pakistan and Afghanistan, seeking to build cellular networks in those countries.

Robinson wrote two books on the failure of the major air carriers Eastern and Pan Am. The latter book was found to be substantially infringing on Robert Daley's book "An American Saga." In attempting to seek a declaratory judgement asserting he had not infringed, the court decided that not only was the book infringing, but Robinson had acted in bad faith in the litigation. 877 F.Supp 830 (S.D.N.Y 1995).

In 1975, he appeared as an extra in the film Jaws.

Jack Errol Robinson III (May 12, 1960 – November 20, 2017) was an American Republican politician from Massachusetts. He ran for the United States Senate in 2000 against Ted Kennedy (Democratic) and Carla Howell (Libertarian), losing to Kennedy. He ran for Secretary of the Commonwealth in 2002, losing to William F. Galvin, and for US House of Representatives in Massachusetts's 9th district in 2006, losing to Stephen Lynch. In 2009, he ran against Scott Brown in the Republican primaries for the special election to fill Ted Kennedy's Senate seat, but lost to Brown in the primary.