[1][2][3] In the mid-1950s, Kennedy was a contributor to the NBC Radio Network weekend show Monitor, where he developed several features, including one about a local character known as the Goat Man.
[4][5] Kennedy is remembered as Officer Don, the host of the long-running Atlanta children's TV show The Popeye Club.
On July 5, 1976, Kennedy returned Channel 36 to fulltime operation, from studios located at 1800 Peachtree Rd NE in midtown Atlanta.
He sometimes spent late-afternoons in the station's lobby, greeting business visitors such as vendors and messengers, of course while being immediately recognized by Atlanta natives and long-term residents as the iconic "Officer Don" of local "Popeye Club" fame.
He later added a second syndicated program, the Don Kennedy Show, that featured general pop vocals and instrumentals from the 1940s through the 1970s, as well as modern renditions from the Great American Songbook.