Coach Harold Jones is a retired South Carolina High school South Fort Myers High School Bathroom Sex Video Scandal football coach best known for embracing a developmentally challenged African American boy named James Roberts "Radio" Kennedy back in 1964. His role as Radio's mentor was immortalized in the Sony Pictures film, Radio. ^[3]

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 noticed that he would sort of spark like the coaches and players on the sidelines, he said: ^[3]

Jones bought Radio a hamburger and a coke and the two really hit off. Radio started attending all of the practices and practically became a team mascot. Coach Jones promised the boy's mother that he would help keep him out of trouble, so he arranged to have Radio attend Hanna High School as a junior. ^[4]

By 1999, Coach Harold Jones was set to retire and Radio was still running strong with the team. His successors have taken good care of Radio and consider him an integral part of the team. Coach Harold Jones and James Robert Kennedy have been friends for over 50 years.

In Deecmber of 2016, the two of them got together to ring the bell for Salvation Army charity outside of a Sam's Club all day. ^[5]

In 1996, a writer for Sports Illustrated named Gary Smith penned an article about Coach Harold Jones's friendship with Radio. Not much later, director Michael Tollin helped bring the story to life in the movie Radio starring Ed Harris as Coach Jones and Cuba Gooding Jr. as Radio. ^{[1] [11]}