Walter D. (Donnie) Kennedy
Donnie was born in Copiah County, Mississippi in
1947.
After graduating from high school he attended
Mississippi Baptist Medical Center School of Respiratory Therapy,
graduating in 1966. He moved to Monroe, Louisiana in 1967, working
as Director of Respiratory Therapy as a Registered Respiratory
Therapist (RRT) and attending the University of Louisiana Monroe (ULM).
In 1978 he graduated ULM with a B.S. in Nursing. In 1979 in founded
Respiratory Associates Management Associates, Inc., providing
Respiratory Therapy services for hospitals in North Louisiana.
After selling his company he attended Charlotte
Memorial Hospital School of Anesthesia, graduating in 1983.
Subsequently he has worked as a Certified Registered Nurse
Anesthetist (CRNA). Retiring from full-time employment in 2006, he
and his wife, Betty, now devote their time to their four children
and ten grandchildren.
Donnie has co-authored three books with his twin
brother Ron.
They have written and published The South Was
Right!, Why Not Freedom! America's Revolt
Against Big
Government and Was Jefferson Davis Right?.
In addition they
also edited, annotated and republished A View of the
Constitution the first textbook used at West Point to
teach Constitutional Law. William Rawle a judge from
Pennsylvania originally published it in 1825. He was an
advocate of abolition but strongly supported the right of a
Sovereign State to secede from the Union.
