Popular Children’s Show Host In Atlanta Was 93 – Deadline

Don Kennedy, star of the long-running WSB-TV youngsters’s present “Officer Don and The Popeye Membership,” has died at 93.

Kennedy died from problems of dementia following a stroke in 2015, his daughter, Rebecca Maple, informed the Atlanta Journal-Structure.

“Officer Don and The Popeye Membership” aired stay weekly for an hour beginning in 1956. Kennedy served because the host of the hit present for 13 years.

After serving within the navy, Kennedy was a employees announcer and information anchor at WSB-TV earlier than taking over the position of “Officer Don.”

“The Popeye Membership” present featured Popeye cartoons interspersed with stay bits. It grew to become some of the well-liked native youngsters’ exhibits within the nation, in response to the Atlanta Journal-Structure.

Reside viewers appearances for youngsters within the taping of the exhibits had been so well-liked, they needed to be reserved a yr prematurely.

He was inducted into the Georgia Affiliation of Broadcasters Corridor of Fame, Silver Circle Award and Georgia Radio Corridor of Fame.

No memorial service is deliberate.