 Kinnan, who also served in World War II as a B-17 bomber pilot and then an Advanced Weather Officer attaining the rank of Captain in the United States Air Force before resigning in March 1953 to enter broadcasting in Oklahoma.Kinnan was born to David V. Kinnan and Hazel Hamer.He met his wife, the former Marjorie G. Ahrendt at North High School in Columbus, OH where they both attended.