Jess Cain, Date of Birth, Date of Death

    

Jess Cain

American DJ

Date of Birth: 17-Jun-1926

Date of Death: 14-Feb-2008

Profession: disc jockey, stage actor, radio personality

Nationality: United States

Zodiac Sign: Gemini


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About Jess Cain

  • Jess Daniel Dennis Cain III (June 17, 1926 – February 14, 2008) was an American radio personality.
  • For 34 years, from 1957 to 1991, Cain was the morning drive personality on WHDH/850 in Boston.
  • Cain also was a professional actor and appeared in numerous theater and musical theater productions, and appeared in early television on the Sergeant Bilko - a.k.a.
  • The Phil Silvers Show.
  • In the Boston area, he was known especially for playing Ebenezer Scrooge in Charles Dickens' A Christmas Carol.
  • A native of Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, he was a graduate of Northeast Catholic High School in Philadelphia and the University of Notre Dame. Cain's song about Carl Yastrzemski — which he adapted from an old ragtime tune called "Shoutin' Liza Trombone" — appeared on "The Impossible Dream," a WHDH-produced album commemorating the 1967 Boston Red Sox season and later as part of the soundtrack of the 2005 movie Fever Pitch. He was a World War II veteran, serving under Audie Murphy at the Battle of the Bulge and earning the Silver Star. CAIN, JESSE D. Citation: The President of the United States takes pleasure in presenting the Silver Star Medal to Jesse D.
  • Cain (33813241), Private First Class [then Private], U.S.
  • Army, for conspicuous gallantry and intrepidity in action while serving with Company A, 275th Infantry Regiment, 70th Infantry Division.
  • On 16 March 1945, at 1500 Hours, near Saarbrücken, Germany, Private Cain was the only one of a group of fifteen men sent to obtain information and determine enemy strength in the Siegfried Line, who was not a casualty in the machine-gun trap sprung on them.
  • Crawling, creeping, and finally running, while enemy machine-gun and burp guns blazed away at him, Private Cain made his way back to his Battalion Command Post to report the situation.
  • He then directed the laying of a smoke screen by the mortars, and then led a second group to the scene.
  • Seven painfully wounded men were evacuated while streams of enemy fire probed the smoke-covered field in an attempt to hamper the movement and escape.
  • Private Cain's actions, without regard for his own safety, reflect great credit on himself and the Armed Forces of the United States. Headquarters, 3d Infantry Division, General Orders No.
  • 394 (December 15, 1945) Home Town: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania In 1970, Cain criticized Johnny Cash's anti-war song "What is Truth?".
  • He called the song "junk" and "Trash".Cain died from prostate cancer in his Beacon Hill home at the age of 81.
  • He was inducted into the National Radio Hall of Fame in November 2008.

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