| Paul Harvey  AKA Paul Harvey Aurandt
Born: 4-Sep-1918
Birthplace: Tulsa, OK
Gender: Male
Religion: Seventh Day Adventist
Race or Ethnicity: White
Sexual orientation: Straight
Occupation: Radio Personality, Columnist Nationality: United States
Executive summary: Folksy radio quasi-journalist Military service: US Army Air Corps (Dec-1943 to Mar-1944, Section 8 discharge, mental illness) Paul Harvey first went on the radio in 1933, when he was still attending high school in Tulsa, OK. Hard work, a smooth baritone voice, and his mastery of the dramatic pause earned Harvey quick advancement at a series of radio gigs across Kansas and Missouri. At KXOK-AM in St. Louis, he met Lynne 'Angel' Cooper, the station's "women's news" reporter. He proposed over dinner on their first date, and she became his wife, producer, and editor.
Harvey was a newscaster at Chicago's WENR-AM, where he began his daily Paul Harvey News and Comment for ABC Radio in 1951. The journalistic grandfather of Fox News, Harvey's commentaries often tilt to the right, and he reads the commercials as enthusiastically as the commentary. "I am fiercely loyal to those willing to put their money where my mouth is", he says.
In 1976, Harvey started a second daily radio show, The Rest of the Story, telling little-known true anecdotes about famous folks or historic incidents, always with a little twist at the end. The Rest of the Story is written by Harvey's son and announcer, Paul Jr., who goes by the family's off-the-air name, Aurandt.
Behind Harvey's folksy demeanor, his commentary occasionally reveals perspectives on the conservative extreme. In a 2005 on-air statement, for example, he seemed to wax nostalgic for slavery and biological warfare, and suggested that America should have used nuclear weapons in its wars against Afghanistan and Iraq.
We sent men with rifles into Afghanistan and Iraq, and we kept our best weapons in their silos. Even now, we're standing there dying, daring to do nothing decisive because we've declared ourselves to be better than our terrorist enemies, more moral, more civilized. Our image is at stake, we insist.
But we didn't come this far because we are made of sugar candy. Once upon a time, we elbowed our way onto and into this continent by giving smallpox-infected blankets to Native Americans. Yes, that was biological warfare. And we used every other weapon we could get our hands on, to grab this land from whomever, and we grew prosperous. And yes, we greased the skids with the sweat of slaves.
And so it goes with most great nation-states, which feeling guilty about their savage pasts, eventually civilize themselves out of business, and wind up invaded and ultimately dominated by the lean, hungry, up-and-coming who are not made of sugar candy. Father: Harry Harrison Aurandt (Tulsa police officer, d. 20-Dec-1921, shot off duty)
Mother: Anna Dagmar Christensen
Sister: (older)
Wife: Lynne Cooper ("Angel", b. 1916, m. 1940, d. 3-May-2008 leukemia, one son)
Son: Paul Harvey, Jr. (aka Paul Aurandt, Jr.)
High School: Central High School, Tulsa, OK
University: University of Tulsa
Order of DeMolay Tulsa, OK 1936
Experimental Aircraft Association
Lambda Chi Alpha Fraternity
Broadcasting and Cable Hall of Fame
Radio Hall of Fame
Presidential Medal of Freedom 9-Nov-2005
Endorsement of Archer Daniels Midland
Endorsement of Bose Corporation
Endorsement of General Electric
Endorsement of Select Comfort Sleep Number bed
Endorsement of Walgreens
Endorsement of Wal-Mart
FILMOGRAPHY AS ACTOR
Everything That Rises (12-Jul-1998)
Official Website:
http://www.paulharvey.com/
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