Don Cornelius Dead Of Apparent Suicide
Posted On: February 1, 2012
My heart can’t take many more shocks today. First the whole Harry Potter/waxing thing and now this??!!!!! Don Cornelius..the coolest MFer to ever live…killed himself???!!!????
According to the Los Angeles Times, police arrived at Cornelius’ Sherman Oaks home around 4 a.m. and found him dead from an apparent self-inflicted gunshot wound.
A radio news announcer by trade, Cornelius began moonlighting at WCIU-TV in the 1960s. While there, he toyed with the idea of creating an African-American version of “American Bandstand,” Dick Clark’s influential music show, with live dancing five days a week. On August 17, 1970, the first episode of Soul Train premiered on the station, and by the following year, it was being syndicated in other markets.
Don has had a rocky life…arrests and a Soul Train movie that never went anywhere…that’s sad because now it will surely see the big screen.
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