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Early years
The son of a policeman, Harvey made radio receivers as a young boy. He attended Tulsa Central High School where a teacher, Isabelle Ronan, was "impressed by his voice." On her recommendation, he started working at KVOO in Tulsa in 1933, when he was 14. His first job was helping clean up. Eventually he was allowed to fill in on the air, reading commercials and the news.While attending the University of Tulsa, he continued working at KVOO, first as an announcer, and later as a program director. Harvey spent three years as a station manager for KSAL, a local station in Salina, Kansas. From there, he moved to a newscasting job at KOMA in Oklahoma City, and then to KXOK, in St. Louis, where he was Director of Special Events and a roving reporter.
Harvey then moved to Hawaii to cover the United States Navy as it concentrated its fleet in the Pacific. He was returning to the mainland from assignment when the Japanese attacked Pearl Ha
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Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story
This was a book from my youth. Nationally syndicated radio "news and comment" guy, Paul Harvey, was a voice from the lazy days of the 1970s, mainly heard in the summer months from a static-prone but strong little transistor radio, when I was off school and frolicking around the pool or the yard, playing with the dogs or climbing the clothesline pole or retrieving an errant football quickly to avoid a vicious dog on the other side of the neighbor's fence.
So Paul Harvey represents a more innocent time, for me and for the country. He had an easy, slightly sinister and bemused edge to his vocal delivery that added suspense to his editorialized news broadcasts, and to a special segment of programs he titled,
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Paul Harvey's the Rest of the Story
Paul Harvey is the most listened-to radio personality in amerika. Millions of loyal listeners tune in every week to hear his unique blend of news and views. Now, in "Paul Harvey's The Rest Of The Story" you'll find eighty-two astonishing true stories of the famous and infamous, the outrageous and the unknown. Each unforgettable tale has for its startling slag line the wild and wonderful solution to a real-life mystery. The 1950's presidential candidate who killed a teenage girl. The governor of New York who dressed up like a woman--at taxpayer's expense. The queen whose secret photo collection--if exposed--would chock the world. The American founding father who kept his wife locked in the cellar. The best-selling mystery writer who tried to get away . . . with murder! From present-day shockers to historical puzzlers, "Paul Harvey's The Rest Of The Story" reveals the untold story behind some of history's strangest little-known facts.