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After a year without James 'Radio' Kennedy, his legacy remains alive
It's been a year since James "Radio" Kennedy died after inspiring thousands of people in Anderson and millions more who saw the Hollywood movie based on his life.
In Anderson is where Kennedy's heart, and his big beaming smile, will remain.
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 11th-grader and a role model for generations of students.
Kennedy was a role model for students by his example, said Jan Burdette, a longtime nurse at Hanna.
“I’m not a morning person,” Burdette said.
“But when he would come in, he’d say ‘Why are you tired? You don’t have to be.’”
And she’d smile and not be tired.
Burdette said keeping Kennedy’s legacy will be important but challenging. Today’s juniors and seniors are the last class who went a full year with Kennedy.
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