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Friday, March 19, 2010

Radio Remembers: British DJ Charlie Gillett; Chappaquiddick DA Edmund Dinis

If you were listening in 1976 to Charlie Gillett on BBC Radio London, you might have heard the song “Sultans of Swing” by a then-unknown group called Dire Straits. Gillett was a rock music innovator, and he also wrote a book on the history of rock music called “The Sound of the City.” The longtime BBC Radio DJ passed away after a brief illness. He was 68 … Edmund Dinis was the district attorney in charge of the grand jury case involving the late Senator Edward Kennedy and the fatal car crash off the bridge at Chappaquiddick that killed Mary Jo Kopechne. Outside of his career in law, Dinis was also the owner of WJFD-FM (97.3) in New Bedford, Massachusetts, purchasing the Portuguese-language station in 1975. A veteran of World War II, Dinis was 85.

Tags: BBC, WJFD

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