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[1] [2] The article and the movie are based on the true story of T. L. Hanna High School football coach Harold Jones and a young man with an intellectual disability, James Robert "Radio" Kennedy (Cuba Gooding Jr.).
James R. Kennedy, a man with developmental disabilities who became a familiar and beloved presence on the sidelines during a South Carolina high school’s football games, inspiring the 2003...
Cuba Gooding Jr. received praise for his portrayal of James "Radio" Kennedy in the 2003 film 'Radio.' The man behind the character led a marvelous life.
Readers may be familiar with the story portrayed in the movie “Radio” starring Cuba Gooding, Jr. But the community at Hanna High soon would realize that what they got from Radio was more than what they were doing for him.
'Radio' tells the true life story of a high school football coach who befriends a severely mentally retarded young man (whom they nickname 'Radio' because he loves listening to the radio so much), lets him hang out with the team, and, thereby, changes not only the boy's life but the lives of just about everyone in the South Carolina town in ...
James Robert "Radio" Kennedy (October 14, 1946 – December 15, 2019) was an American man with an intellectual disability who was known for his association with the T. L. Hanna High School football team in Anderson, South Carolina. [1]
In real life, Coach Harold Jones first lured Radio onto the field with a bottle of soda (not a water bottle) in 1964. The film's story was condensed to take place over the course of one year from 1976 to 1977.
How an 18-year-old with mental disabilities changed a high school football program in South Carolina. The story that in spired the movie Radio.
The story of a high school coach and the developmentally challenged man who he took under his wing. Set in 1976, real life Coach Jones befriends mentally disabled black student, Radio. They then form a friendship and bond over the football season.
The movie is based on a Sports Illustrated story, written by Gary Smith, about the way a series of Anderson teams and coaches have adopted James “Radio” Kennedy, a mentally disabled local man, as a team mascot and cheerleader.