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Paul Harvey Aurandt (born September 4, 1918), better known as Paul Harvey, is an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. He broadcasts News and Comment at 8:30am ET in the morning (5 minutes) and at 11:30am (15 minutes) Monday through Friday and at noon on Saturday, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segment. His listening audience is estimated at 22 million people a week.
Career
Harvey, born and raised in Tulsa, Oklahoma, made radio sets as a boy. In 1933, at a high school teacher’s suggestion, he started working at KVOO in Tulsa, where he helped clean up and eventually was allowed to fill in on the air, reading commercials and news.
Later, while attending the University of Tulsa, he continued working at KVOO as an announcer, and later as a program director. Harvey spent three years as a station manager for a local station in Salina, Kansas. From there, he moved to a newscasting job at KOMA-AM in Oklahoma City, then moved on to KXOK, in St. Louis, where he was Director of Special Events and also worked as a roving reporter.
In 1940, Harvey moved to Hawaii to cover the U.S. Navy as it concentrated its fleet in the Pacific. He was returning to the United States from assignment in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Harvey then enlisted in the United States Army Air Forces, where he served until 1944.
After leaving military service, Harvey moved to Chicago, where in June 1944, he began broadcasting from the ABC affiliate WENR. He quickly became the most popular newscaster in Chicago. In 1945, he began hosting the postwar employment program Jobs for G.I. Joe on ABC affiliate WENR. Harvey added The Rest of the Story as a tagline to in-depth feature stories in 1946. The spots became their own series in 1976. In 1951, the ABC Radio Networks carried Paul Harvey's show News and Comment coast-to-coast, and it has continued ever since.
At that time, America was at the height of the Red Scare and Harvey had been criticizing the federal government's perceived poor security. In order to bolster his allegations, based on a tip from a guard at the Argonne National Laboratory, he attempted to infiltrate the lab. He enlisted the aid of the guard who had given him the tip, Charles Rogan, and John Crowley, an employee of the Office of Naval Intelligence. On February 6, 1951, he and his partners went to the perimeter of the lab around 1 a.m. Harvey climbed over the fence, but his overcoat caught on the barbed wire atop the fence. While he was trying to extricate himself, a security patrol found and apprehended him, turning him over to the FBI. Eventually, a grand jury cleared him of all charges.
From the late 1960s through the early 1980s, there was a televised, 5 minute editorial by Paul Harvey that local stations could insert into their local news programs, or show separately. On May 10, 1976, ABC Radio Networks premiered The Rest of the Story as a separate series which provided endless surprises as Harvey dug into stories behind the stories of famous events and people. Harvey's son, a concert pianist, created and produced the series. He remains the show's only writer.
In late 2000, Harvey signed a 10-year, $100 million contract with ABC Radio Networks. A few months later, he was off the air after damaging his vocal cords. He returned in late August 2001.
Paul Harvey News has been called the "largest one-man network in the world", as it is carried on 1,200 radio stations, 400 Armed Forces Network stations around the world and 300 newspapers. His broadcasts and newspaper columns have been reprinted in the Congressional Record more than those of any other commentator.
Harvey's News and Comment is streamed on the World Wide Web twice a day.
Awards
He has been named Salesman of the Year, Commentator of the Year, Person of the Year, Father of the Year, and American of the Year. He has been elected to the National Association of Broadcasters Radio Hall of Fame and Oklahoma Hall of Fame and appeared on the Gallup poll list of America's most admired men. In addition he has received 11 Freedom Foundation Awards as well as the Horatio Alger Award.
In 2005, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' most prestigious civilian award, by President George W. Bush .
Family
When Harvey was 3, his father, Harry H. Aurandt, a police officer with the Tulsa Police Department, was gunned down while trying to arrest a suspect.
Harvey is married to Lynne Harvey (née Cooper) of St. Louis. When Harvey was working at KXOK he met Lynne Cooper when she came to the station for a school news program. Harvey invited her to dinner, proposed to her after a few minutes of conversation and from then on called her Angel. A year later she said yes. Lynne Harvey is a member of Phi Beta Kappa and is a former school teacher. Harvey himself was a member of Lambda Chi Alpha at Culver-Stockton College in Missouri.
Catchphrases and Quotes
- "Hello, Americans, this Is Paul Harvey!" followed immediately by...
- "Stand by for news!" or
- "You know what the news is. In a minute, you're going to hear ... the r-r-r-rest of the story!" or
- "Good morning, Americans ... it's Friday!" or
- "and this... is... Saturday."
- "Page – – two (three, four, etc.)" – Signaling a commercial break.
- "Today's news of most lasting significance might be this ..."
- To Richard Nixon, on the Vietnam War: "Mr. President, I love you, but you're wrong."
- "Retiring is just practicing up to be dead. That doesn't take any practice."
- "Every pessimist who ever lived has been buried in an unmarked grave. Tomorrow has always been better than today, and it always will be."
- To Larry King in a 2003 interview: "The best of times is now."
- On his wife: "She is still one of the daintiest, most feminine creatures I've ever known."
- "And now, for what it's worth, ..." – Lead-in to funny story closing the newscast. He invented the "kicker."
- "When the salad plates were whisked away and the entrée brought in, he leaned over toward me and said, 'Page ... two,' just like he does on the radio." —Garrison Keillor when he met Harvey at a "stuffed-shirt" dinner in Chicago.
- "And remember, it's His birthday – – not yours." (Traditional Christmas Eve closer)
- "... and now you know the Rest of the Story."
- "Paul Harvey.— —Good day!" (intonation rising significantly on "day")
References
- "Argonne passes a reporter's security test". Argonne National Laboratory. Retrieved October 6.
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