The Abandoned Son
Bill said that not even his wives or girlfriends knew about it. In fact, the full story of Kinison’s brain damage and epilepsy only went public after he died. Still, the boy was forever changed by that accident.
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By the time he was 11, his parents had divorced, and the family was split up. According to Bill Kinison, his brother felt that he was abandoned by Bill and their dad. “He wanted to go with my dad, too,” Bill said. Despite the fact that they lived about five minutes away from each other and even moved back a few years later, the damage was done.