Thank You, Mr. Hal Jackson!

Hal Jackson Dead At 96

Radio pioneer Hal Jackson (pictured right) has died, WBLS reports.

He was 96.

Jackson’s exact cause of death is not known. WBLS’s website reports that he died from “illness”

Here's a quote from Mr. Hal Jackson when he was interviewed by Soul Train's Don Cornelius in October 1995 about being inducted into the 'Radio Hall of Fame':

“It is nice to be important, but it is more important to be nice.”

Thank you Mr. Jackson for your decades of service, and helping to make my childhood growing up in New York a bit brighter.


Read more about this incredible man whom I grew up listening to as a youngster - click here.