[Nfbc-info] FYI Paul Harvey

Tue Mar 3 05:28:45 UTC 2009

    Thanks Mike. I didn't remember going to Chicago which is where that 
speech was made I believe but must have because I remember hearing it.
Mike

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> what were the prejudices back then?
> Chuck
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>> Mr. Harvey only appeared at the 1988 convention. However, a commentary of 
>> his was read and used as an example of prejudice against and blind in the 
>> 1976 banquet speech "Of Visions and Vultures" given, incidentally, in Los 
>> Angeles.
>>
>> Mike Freeman
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>> From: "Michael Peterson" <its_mike at sbcglobal.net>
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>> Date: Sunday, Mar 1, 2009 6:22:59
>> Subject: [Nfbc-info] FYI Paul Harvey
>>
>>>
>>>
>>> I just sent a speech Paul Harvey delivered in 1988 at the Chicago 
>>> convention, I think he delivered a speech at an earlier convention as 
>>> well because I was there, and I wish I could have found that one,  but 
>>> the 1988 one was the only one I found at the braille monitor 
>>> site.Scratching my head, maybe this was the one I was at but it sounds 
>>> different to me somewhat.
>>> Below is the article about Paul Harvey printed last night.
>>> Paul Harvey, seen with his wife Lynne in this 2001 photo, died in 
>>> hospital in Phoenix
>>> on  Saturday at age 90.
>>> Paul Harvey, seen with his wife Lynne in this 2001 photo, died in 
>>> hospital in Phoenix
>>> on Saturday at age 90.
>>>  (Suzanne Starr/The Arizona Republic)
>>> Broadcasting pioneer Paul Harvey died in an Arizona hospital on Saturday 
>>> at the age
>>> of 90, according to ABC Radio Networks.
>>> Network spokesman Louis Adams said Harvey was surrounded by family 
>>> members when he
>>> died in Phoenix, where he had a winter home. No cause of death was 
>>> immediately available.
>>> Harvey was a news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato 
>>> style made him
>>> one of the most familiar voices in the United States. His broadcasts 
>>> also aired in
>>> Canada.
>>> He was forced off the air in 2001 because a virus weakened a vocal cord, 
>>> but he returned
>>> to work in Chicago and was still active as he passed his 90th birthday.
>>> His death comes less than a year after that of his wife and longtime 
>>> producer, Lynne.
>>> "My father and mother created from thin air what one day became radio 
>>> and television
>>> news," Paul Harvey Jr. said in a statement.
>>> "So in the past year, an industry has lost its godparents and today 
>>> millions have
>>> lost a friend," he said.
>>> Paul Harvey Aurandt was born in Tulsa, Olka., the son of a police 
>>> officer. He started
>>> in radio in 1933 in Oklahoma and worked in broadcasting until the Second 
>>> World War,
>>> when he enlisted in the Army Air Corps. He resumed his career in Chicago 
>>> after the
>>> war.
>>> Harvey burst onto the national media scene in 1951 when he began his 
>>> coast-to-coast
>>> show
>>> News and Comment for ABC Radio Networks.
>>> Resonant voice
>>> In 1976, Harvey started another feature, The Rest of the Story,
>>>  which delved into the forgotten or little known facts behind stories of 
>>> famous people
>>> and events.
>>> With his resonant voice and trademark delivery, Harvey became an 
>>> American heartland
>>> icon, delivering news and commentary with a distinctive Midwestern 
>>> flavour.
>>> "Stand by for news!" he told his listeners. He was credited with 
>>> inventing or popularizing
>>> terms such as "skyjacker" and "Reaganomics."
>>> "Paul Harvey was one of the most gifted and beloved broadcasters in our 
>>> nation's
>>> history," ABC Radio Networks president Jim Robinson said in a statement. 
>>> "We will
>>> miss our dear friend tremendously and are grateful for the many years we 
>>> were so
>>> fortunate to have known him."
>>> At the peak of his career, Harvey reached more than 24 million listeners 
>>> on more
>>> than 1,200 radio stations and charged $30,000 US to give a speech. His 
>>> syndicated
>>> column was carried by 300 newspapers.
>>> With files from the Associated Press and ABC
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