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In 1996, Sports Illustrated's Gary Smith wrote about the close friendship that James "Radio" Kennedy, a man with an intellectual disability, had with members of a high school football team in South Carolina. The story eventually became the inspiration for the 2003 film "Radio."
On Sunday morning, "Radio" Kennedy, the man integral to the Anderson, SC. community, died, T.L. Hanna High School announced.
Kennedy, 73, had been battling health problems and former head football coach Harold Jones said that he died at a hospice facility in Anderson.