Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009), better known as Paul Harvey, was an American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio.He broadcast News and Comment on mornings and mid-days on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays and also his famous The Rest of the Story segments. (JR) in the file name. Other substitutes for Harvey included his son, Paul Harvey, Jr.,[18] Doug Limerick,[19] Paul W. Smith,[20] Gil Gross,[21] Ron Chapman,[22] Mitt Romney,[23] Mike Huckabee,[24] Mort Crim, Art Van Horn, Scott Shannon, and Tony Snow.
[10], In 1945, he began hosting the postwar employment program Jobs for G.I. Nevertheless, Harvey was happy to defend Hoover and spoke of him on his show of April 25, 1963: "God help the United States without John Edgar Hoover.... (FBI) Director Hoover is not retiring. From 1952 to 2008, his programs reached as many as 24 million people per week. The Rest of the Story He was returning to the mainland from assignment after the Japanese attack on Pearl Harbor. [13] The series quickly grew to six broadcasts a week and continued until his death in 2009.
Paul Harvey Aurandt Paul Harvey Aurandt (1918-2009), popularly known as Paul Harvey, was a long-time radio broadcaster for ABC. 'This is Paul Harvey! It was written and produced by his son, Paul Harvey, Jr., from its outset and for its 33-year duration. Paul Harvey Archives, All Rights Reserved ®, (aka "TROTS") had been a staple of Paul Harvey from the time it
Harvey, it turned out, had planned from the outset to feed the nation a bogus account of his escapade: "I hereby affirm the following is a true and accurate account," the script began.
He angrily denied the accusation but was vague about the details: "I cannot tell you the exact wording on my discharge."
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[3] To demonstrate his concern, just after midnight on February 6, 1951, he entered the grounds by scaling a fence and was quickly apprehended by security guards. [14] That was contested by some critics, including urban legend expert Jan Harold Brunvand.[15]. (aka "TROTS") had been a staple of Paul Harvey from the time it He eventually was allowed to fill in on the air by reading commercials and the news.[5][6][7].
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On February 3, 2013, a recording of Harvey's "So God Made a Farmer" commentary was used by Ram Trucks in a commercial titled "Farmer," which aired during Super Bowl XLVII. If you have heard otherwise, somebody's sinister wish was the father of that thought. either Paul, or in later years by Paul Jr. as a substitute or "Paul Harvey ... Good night. He was responsible for funding the Paul Harvey Audio-Video Center at EAA's headquarters in Oshkosh. - Administrative Policy Procedures - Anti-War - Bureau Personnel - Civil Rights - Counterterrorism - Foreign Counterintelligence- Frequently Requested - Fugitives - Gangs Extremist Groups - Gangster Era - Miscellaneous - Organizations - Organized Crime - Political Figures Events - Popular Culture - Public Corruption - Supreme Court - Unexplained Phenomenon - World War II - Violent Crime.
following the subject name. [citation needed] Harvey was named to the DeMolay Hall of Fame, a Masonic youth organization, on June 25, 1993. In the 1940s, Stern's The Colgate Sports Reel and newsreel programs used many of the techniques later used by Harvey, including his emphatic style of delivery and the use of phrases such as Reel Two and Reel Three to denote segments of the broadcast, much like Harvey's Page Two and Page Three. February 2009.
In addition to the inquiry into whether Harvey's Rest of the Story tales are true, Harvey's trademark ability of seamlessly migrating from content to commercial brought scrutiny. repeated in the early evening. On her recommendation, he started working at KVOO in Tulsa in 1933 helping to clean up when he was 14. At Aurandt's funeral, twelve robed members of the Ku Klux Klan arrived late in the service and dropped roses on his casket, though there is no other indication that Aurandt was himself a Klansman[45][46][47], In 1940, Harvey married Lynne Cooper of St. Louis. stories that were hosted by Paul Harvey Jr. are noted with
Under questioning, Harvey eventually dropped his cover story but refused to elaborate, saying he wanted to tell his tale before a congressional committee. A large-scale manhunt resulted in the arrest of four suspects the day after Aurandt died.
The elder Aurandt was a Tulsa police officer who served as secretary to Commissioner J.H. Her death, at the age of 92, was announced by ABC radio on May 3, 2008.