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He was neither the imitator nor the duplicator, but the originator. The "Ace from Outer Space," Douglas "Jocko" Henderson, pioneering radio personality, died Saturday evening at the University of Pennsylvania Medical Center.

He was 82.

Mr. Henderson, known for his class, elegance and rhyming patter on-air, started his career in his native Baltimore at WSID-AM in 1952.

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Seven months later, in 1953, he accepted an offer from WHAT-AM (1340) in Philadelphia and took on the name "Jocko."

It was here that he began rhyming everything he said in a style that would later influence countless other disc jockeys, as well as the rap music genre.

Less than a year later, he moved up the Philadelphia dial to WDAS AM-FM, where he remained well into the '60s.

"I had the utmost respect for him as a person and talent," said WDAS radio personality Joe "Butter" Tamburro.

"He had the smoothness and grace of any great broadcaster I've ever met."

When he was a teenager, Tamburro, a South Philadelp