Paul Harvey - RIP

**MotoZ** · 03-01-09, 01:35 PM

It's almost unfathomable to me that he was on the radio for seventy years. SEVENTY. That's incredible. He was a true treasure of Americana.

**HeavyG** · 03-01-09, 06:51 PM

Good day...

He will be missed.

**33knight33** · 03-01-09, 08:06 PM

........ sorry to interrupt the eulogy but who was he? (i gather he was a radio talk guy?)

**Walkerxes** · 03-01-09, 08:08 PM

Originally Posted by 33knight33

........ sorry to interrupt the eulogy but who was he? (i gather he was a radio talk guy?)

*facepalm*

Yeah.. a radio guy.. an icon of news/talk radio

**33knight33** · 03-01-09, 08:37 PM

Originally Posted by Walkerxes

*facepalm*

Yeah.. an icon

<---- doesnt watch news or listen to talk radio :8

**deathgodusmc** · 03-01-09, 08:38 PM

didnt someone pick him for megadeath on lex and terry

**DJ Ms. White** · 03-01-09, 09:59 PM

Lex and Terry have nothing on this great gentleman. The eloquence and honor he lived by are something I fear I will never hear or see again.

**MotoZ** · 03-01-09, 11:00 PM

Originally Posted by 33knight33

Originally Posted by Walkerxes

*facepalm*

Yeah.. an icon

<---- doesnt watch news or listen to talk radio :8

Knight,

Paul Harvey gave the news, but the special part of his broadcast was a segment called "The Rest of the Story". In each segment he would focus on an event or person in history and then tell a great story about a little-known fact. It might have been about an unsung hero, or stroke of luck, etc. Then he would say, "Now you know the rest of the story."

All around America people would stop what they were doing to listen to Paul Harvey's story. Burly men in shops and factories would stop and huddle together around workbench radios to listen to Paul's inspirational stories. Paul Harvey might have been considered a common man's philosopher. He was a national treasure.