After a radio executive told him he had a great voice during a traffic stop, Cornelius quit being a cop and took a 3-month broadcasting course to launch his career.
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Born in Bronzeville, Chicago's storied 'Black Metropolis,' Don Cornelius was the son of a postal worker who served in the Marine Corps and fought in the Korean War before returning home to sell cars and insurance. The decision to become a cop seemed to settle things, but then came the traffic stop that changed everything. Officer Cornelius pulled over Roy Wood, news director at Chicago AM radio station WVON, and Wood immediately told Cornelius his voice was extraordinary — had he ever considered radio? Cornelius hadn't. But he quit the force, enrolled in a 3-month broadcasting course with a wife and two sons at home, and got hired at WVON after his voice and persona carried him through. Josh notes the sheer audacity of the move: a cop with a family, no broadcasting experience, betting everything on three months of school. It paid off immediately. He rose through local Chicago TV, hosted a news segment called A Black's View of the News, interviewed Jesse Jackson and Martin Luther King, DJed at night, and began hosting parties he called the Soul Train — because he took the train to get to them.
Officer Don Cornelius pulled over a radio station news director for a traffic violation. That man told Cornelius he had an extraordinary voice and should consider radio. Cornelius quit the force, took a 3-month broadcasting course with a wife and two kids at home, and launched one of the most important TV shows in history.
When WCIU agreed to let Don Cornelius shoot a Soul Train pilot but refused to fund it, he put up $400 of his own money. That decision — made out of necessity — meant he owned the show outright. No network, no studio, just him. James Brown was so stunned he asked twice.
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