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In 1964, coach Harold Jones noticed a young man who would hold a transistor radio to his ear and come to football practice every day. The 18-year-old James Robert Kennedy, nicknamed “Radio” because of his obsession with radios, had a developmental handicap and wasn't able to read or write.
Harold Jones, the former football coach of T.L. Hanna High School, celebrated No. 90 with family andclose friends. Several of the die-hard football fans in the area quickly connect Jones with the 2003 movie called Radio – actor Ed Harris played Coach Jones in the famous movie and Cuba Gooding Jr. played the role of Radio (the late James ...
He had been associated with the high school's football program since 1964 when he befriended Coach Harold Jones. "Radio touched so many people," Jones said. "He just has so much love to give.
It took the whole bed of head football coach Harold Jones's pickup truck to get all the gifts home, just as it has on the other birthdays and the Christmases that Radio has celebrated at the...
His message of acceptance has reached around the world, said Harold Jones, who was the football coach at T.L. Hanna High School, where Kennedy spent most of his life as an informal...
Sports Director Beth Hoole sits down with former TL Hanna coach Harold Jones as he talks about Radio.
It was 1964, in the heat of August, when JV coaches Harold Jones and Dennis Patterson noticed a young man coming to the practices every day, holding a transistor radio to his ear. Coach Jones explains, “He started mimicking us coaches and the players.
Former TL Hanna High football coach, inspiration world-wide, and best friend Harold Jones spoke at James "Radio" Kennedy's funeral - saying his friend taught us all how to love, and he never...
He kept coming back," said former T.L. Hanna coach Harold Jones. Perhaps nobody showed a closer bond with Radio than Jones. He saw firsthand Radio's positivity and impact.
Many speakers, including former football coach Harold Jones whose relationship with Kennedy is central to the movie "Radio," eulogized the joyous life of Kennedy.