{"id":1224,"date":"2016-10-06T14:33:58","date_gmt":"2016-10-06T21:33:58","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1224"},"modified":"2018-02-07T11:06:41","modified_gmt":"2018-02-07T18:06:41","slug":"elliott-james-walter-1927","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/?p=1224","title":{"rendered":"ELLIOTT, JAMES WALTER, 1927-1992"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Radio announcer and station executive; free-lance journalist. Born&#8211; August 12, 1927, Cordova. Parents&#8211; Green Smith and Jennie Dew (Pettus) Elliott. Married&#8211; Margaret Rose Knight, August 25, 1949. Education&#8211; Massey Business College in Birmingham; St. Bernard College in Cullman. Served at radio station WSGN in Birmingham; WKUL in Cullman; WJBB in Haleyville; WFMH in Cullman, WWWR in Russellville; all between 1948-1966; president and general manager of WJOL in Florence. Died October 1992.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Source:<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Who&#8217;s Who in Alabama, Vol. II.<\/p>\n<p><strong>Publication(s):<\/strong><\/p>\n<p>Transport to Disaster. New York; Holt, 1962.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Radio announcer and station executive; free-lance journalist. Born&#8211; August 12, 1927, Cordova. Parents&#8211; Green Smith and Jennie Dew (Pettus) Elliott. Married&#8211; Margaret Rose Knight, August 25, 1949. Education&#8211; Massey Business College in Birmingham; St. Bernard College in Cullman. Served at radio station WSGN in Birmingham; WKUL in Cullman; WJBB in Haleyville; WFMH in Cullman, WWWR [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3,5],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1224","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-authors","category-d-f"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1224"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":7553,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1224\/revisions\/7553"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1224"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1224"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.lib.ua.edu\/Alabama_Authors\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1224"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}