Is Paul Harvey still living?
From September 4, 1918 to February 28, 2009, Paul Harvey Aurandt was an American radio host for ABC News Radio. He broadcast News and Comment, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments, on weekday mornings and middays, and at noon on Saturdays. From 1951 through 2008, his weekly presentations…
From September 4, 1918 to February 28, 2009, Paul Harvey Aurandt was an American radio host for ABC News Radio.
He broadcast News and Comment, as well as his famous The Rest of the Story segments, on weekday mornings and middays, and at noon on Saturdays.
From 1951 through 2008, his weekly presentations reached up to 24 million people.
Paul Harvey News was broadcast on 1,200 radio stations, 400 American Forces Network stations, and 300 newspapers.
Harvey was born to a police officer in Tulsa, Oklahoma, whose father was murdered by robbers in 1921.
At Tulsa Central High School, where he constructed radio receivers as a child, he was two years ahead of future actor Tony Randall.
Is Paul Harvey still living?
March 1, 2009— — On Saturday, the “most listened to guy” in radio went away.
Paul Harvey’s folksy accent and plain conversation are no longer broadcast after more than seven decades on the air.
Harvey passed away at the age of 90 at a Phoenix hospital near his winter home.
Lynne Cooper Harvey, whom he referred to on the radio as “Angel” and who was also his business partner and the first producer ever elected to the Radio Hall of Fame, died nine months after Paul Harvey.
She died in May 2008, when she was 92 years old.
