EP383: Ken Kunken - World's First Quadriplegic Lawyer
"You can't always control what's happening to you, but you can control how you react to it. That was the biggest lesson I learned." — Ken Kunken
On Halloween 1970, twenty-year-old Cornell engineering student Ken Kunken tackled a ball carrier during a football kickoff and broke his neck. The rehabilitation pamphlet his family was handed listed one possible future for someone with his injury: selling magazine subscriptions by telephone. Ken couldn't dial a rotary phone.
What happened next took five decades, three Ivy League degrees, a passed bar exam, a courtroom with doors too narrow for his…
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