Paul Harvey
Recall last week my blogpost about listening to Ft. Wayne’s WOWO radio as a kid while milking the cows with Dad. My favorite segment was entitled “The Rest of the Story” by the legendary syndicated announcer, Paul Harvey, pictured above. The theme of each segment was Paul recapping some unknown topic, but then finishing by telling the widely known aspect of the same story, always ending with “and that’s the rest of the story. Good day.” Click here for a special example of Paul Harvey telling "the rest of the story".
This was Dad’s favorite Paul Harvey segment about God creating a farmer.
Except I didn’t spend my life doing what Dad does as suggested in the last sentence - and neither did my younger brother!!
Listen to his commentary after President Kennedy’s assassination.
This 1965 segment about the Devil unfortunately still rings very true today.
As does this Paul Harvey radio broadcast about taxes.
Paul Harvey was a coiner of words, such as Reaganomics, guesstimate, and skyjacker, all were the themes of one of Harvey’s famed stories. He was a close friend of J. Edgar Hoover, the legendary FBI Director, who apparently had his agents research many of Harvey’s stories for accuracy.
Paul Harvey Aurandt, the newscaster, was the son of a police officer and a Danish immigrant. He dropped his surname in 1933 when he began his radio career at KVOO in Tulsa. Here’s a wonderful Charles Osgood tribute to Paul Harvey upon his death in 2009 at age 90.
Now years later, Mike Rowe, TV host and narrator, publishes a weekly podcast called "The Way I Heard It” as a tribute to Paul Harvey. Here’s a preview.
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