James 'Radio' Kennedy, the mentally disabled man whose importance to a South Carolina football team inspired the Hollywood movie 'Radio,' has died at the age of 73, T.L. Hanna High School confirms
James"Radio" Kennedy, the mentally disabled man whose importance to a South Carolina football team inspired the Hollywood movie"Radio," died early Sunday at the age of 73, T.L. Hanna High School confirmed.
He passed away surrounded by his family after midnight Saturday into Sunday, Athletic Director John Cann said. Details for his funeral will be handled by McDougald Funeral Home in Anderson.Kennedy earned the nickname"Radio" in the mid-1960s when he began to show up at Hanna's football field with a transistor radio, according to Sheila Hilton, the former principal at Hanna.
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