[Vision2020] Paul Harvey Dies at 90

[Tom Hansen]

Courtesy of the Seattle Post-Intelligencer at

http://seattlepi.nwsource.com/tvguide/401881_tvgif1.html
 
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Radio Broadcasting Pioneer Paul Harvey Dies at 90 

By MATT MITOVICH
 
Paul Harvey, the distinctly voiced news commentator whose radio career 
spanned nearly 60 years, died on Saturday in Arizona, a spokesman for ABC 
Radio Networks tells the Associated Press. He was 90.

A cause of death was not immediately available. Harvey's passing comes 
less than a year after that of his wife and longtime producer, Lynne.

"My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio and 
television news," Paul Harvey Jr. said in a statement. "So in the past 
year, an industry has lost its godparents and ... millions have lost a 
friend."

Known for his staccato voice and trademark delivery of "The Rest of the 
Story" (a feature through which he anecdotally recalled the lives of 
famous folk), Harvey's career as a nationally broadcast radio man begin 
1951, when he launched his "News and Comment" program on ABC Radio 
Networks.

In 1970, Harvey famously reversed his stance on the Vietnam War, 
broadcasting this message to Richard M. Nixon: "Mr. President, I love 
you ... but you're wrong [to expand the war]." Harvey's urging of the 
president to pull out of Vietnam elicited an onslaught of letters and 
phone calls, including one from the White House.

At the peak of his career, Harvey reached more than 24 million listeners 
on more than 1,200 radio stations, and his syndicated column was carried 
by 300 newspapers. In 2000, he signed a new 10-year contract with ABC 
Radio Networks. He was forced off the airwaves briefly in 2001 by a 
virally weakened vocal cord.

"Paul Harvey was one of the most gifted and beloved broadcasters in our 
nation's history," ABC Radio Networks President Jim Robinson said in a 
statement. "[We] were so fortunate to have known him."

Among many accolades, Harvey received the presidential Medal of Freedom 
and was an inductee in the Radio Hall of Fame.

And now, we sadly know the rest of Tulsa, Oklahoma-born Paul Harvey 
Aurandt's story. Good day, sir.

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Tribute by the Associated Press
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0wl2LfMVJxw
 
Paul Harvey's Tribute to Genocide and Slavery
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Aj4JMlDfYOQ

Paul Harvey's "Letter From God"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aYEFkYtANVg

An Episode from Paul Harvey's "The Rest of the Story"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XRr9uYtIatY

"You Can't Come Inside" By Paul Harvey [The Rest of the Story]
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5YSkEfwFQ2U

Rest well, Paul Harvey.

Tom Hansen
Moscow, Idaho
 
"In times like these, it is helpful to remember that there have always 
been times like these." 

- Paul
Harvey

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