41 Facts About Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey Aurandt was an American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio.

Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, on 400 American Forces Network stations, and in 300 newspapers.

Paul Harvey made radio receivers as a young boy, and attended Tulsa Central High School, where he was two years ahead of future actor Tony Randall.

Paul Harvey eventually was allowed to fill in on the air by reading commercials and the news.

Paul Harvey continued working at KVOO while he attended the University of Tulsa, first as an announcer and later as a program director.

Paul Harvey spent three years as a station manager for KFBI AM, a Wichita, KS radio station that once had studios in Salina, Kansas.

Paul Harvey then moved to Hawaii to cover the US Navy as it concentrated its fleet in the Pacific after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor.

Paul Harvey eventually enlisted in the US Army Air Forces but only served from December 1943 to March 1944 resulting from a medical discharge.

Paul Harvey then moved to Chicago, where in June 1944, he began broadcasting from the ABC affiliate WENR.

Paul Harvey added The Rest of the Story as a tagline to in-depth feature stories in 1946.

Paul Harvey "went on the air to suggest he was being set up," and the grand jury subsequently declined to indict Paul Harvey.

Later Paul Harvey began to host a separate program, The Rest of the Story, in which he provided backstories behind famous people and events.

In November 2000, Paul Harvey signed a 10-year $100 million contract with ABC Radio Networks.

Paul Harvey did not host the show full-time after April 2008, when he came down with pneumonia.

Paul Harvey was an avid pilot who served in the US Army Air Corps from December 1943 to March 1944.

Paul Harvey was an Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association member for more than 50 years and would occasionally talk about flying to his radio audience.

Paul Harvey was a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association and was frequently seen at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Paul Harvey was responsible for funding the Paul Harvey Audio-Video Center at EAA's headquarters in Oshkosh.

Paul Harvey was an early investor in aircraft manufacturing company Cirrus Aircraft, based in Duluth, Minnesota.

Paul Harvey's endorsed products included EdenPure heaters, Bose radios, Select Comfort mattresses, and Hi-Health dietary supplements, including a supplement that was claimed to improve vision but was later the subject of a Federal Trade Commission enforcement action against the manufacturer for misleading claims made on his show.

In one of the tribute broadcasts, Gil Gross said that Paul Harvey considered advertising just another type of news and that he endorsed only products that he believed in, often by interviewing someone from the company.

Paul Harvey is used as a deus ex machina to wrap the plot up by describing its ending, or to give backstories for villains.

Paul Harvey was a close friend of US Senator Joseph McCarthy and supported his campaign to expose and expel communists from American society and government.

Paul Harvey was a close friend of George Vandeman and the Reverend Billy Graham.

Paul Harvey often quoted the Adventist pioneer Ellen G White in his broadcasts and received the "Golden Microphone" Award for his professionalism and graciousness in dealing with the church.

Paul Harvey railed against welfare cheats and defended the death penalty.

Paul Harvey championed rugged individualism, love of God and country, and the fundamental decency of ordinary people.

Paul Harvey was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters National Radio Hall of Fame and Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and appeared on the Gallup poll list of America's most admired men.

Paul Harvey was named to the DeMolay Hall of Fame, a Masonic youth organization, on June 25,1993.

Paul Harvey was inducted as a Laureate of The Lincoln Academy of Illinois and awarded the Order of Lincoln by the Governor of Illinois in 1987 in the area of Communication.

Paul Harvey's father was born in Martinsburg, Pennsylvania; his mother was Danish.

Paul Harvey had one sibling, an older sister Frances Harrietta Price.

In December 1921, when Paul Harvey was three years old, his father was murdered.

Paul Harvey was inducted into Phi Beta Kappa at Washington University in St Louis and a former schoolteacher.

Paul Harvey invited her to dinner, proposed to her after a few minutes of conversation and from then on called her "Angel," even on his radio show.

On May 17,2007, Paul Harvey told his radio audience that Angel had developed leukemia.

Paul Harvey really put him on track to have the phenomenal career that his career has been.

Paul Harvey was the first woman to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Chicago chapter of American Women in Radio and Television.

Paul Harvey worked in television, and created a television show called Dilemma which is acknowledged as the prototype of the modern talk show genre.

Paul Harvey assisted his father at News and Comment and The Rest of the Story.

Paul Harvey died on February 28,2009, at age 90 at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, surrounded by family and friends.