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http://www.usatoday.com/life/people/2009-02-28-paul-havey-obit_N.htm

"Radio legend Paul Harvey, whose news and commentary segments always ended with his distinctive sign-off, "Paul Harvey....good day," died today at the age of 90, ABC Radio Network says.

Network spokesman Louis Adams says Harvey died Saturday at his winter home in Phoenix, surrounded by family. No cause of death was immediately available.

Harvey never viewed himself as a newsman, even though some 18 million people tuned into his daily reports to hear his 15-minute take on the day's events.

"I'm a professional parade watcher who can't wait to get out of bed every morning and rush down to the teletypes to pan for gold," he told CNN's Larry King in 1988.

That he did with a vengeance since those teletype days in 1951, arriving at his Chicago studio in the pre-dawn hours to produce two news and commentary segments and his evening The Rest of the Story (written by his son, Paul) which were carried on some 1,100 radio stations and 400 Armed Forces Radio Network stations."

For me, this is really sad. I've been listening to him on the radio for a long time, and my dad has been basically his whole life. I don't know if any of you guys who aren't in the US know about him, but I hope some of you guys from the US do know about him.



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Aw. I liked him. I liked "The Rest of the Story" when i'd catch them.



A man with a golden voice brings his perspective to listeners across the world and enriches the airwaves in the process, his name was Paul Harvey, and thats...
the rest of the story



Kickin' Those Games Old School.       -       201 Beaten Games And Counting

I remember listening to this guy on the way to kindergarten when I was still a wee one.



We had two bags of grass, seventy-five pellets of mescaline, five sheets of high-powered blotter acid, a salt shaker half full of cocaine, a whole galaxy of multi-colored uppers, downers, screamers, laughers…Also a quart of tequila, a quart of rum, a case of beer, a pint of raw ether and two dozen amyls.  The only thing that really worried me was the ether.  There is nothing in the world more helpless and irresponsible and depraved than a man in the depths of an ether binge. –Raoul Duke

It is hard to shed anything but crocodile tears over White House speechwriter Patrick Buchanan's tragic analysis of the Nixon debacle. "It's like Sisyphus," he said. "We rolled the rock all the way up the mountain...and it rolled right back down on us...."  Neither Sisyphus nor the commander of the Light Brigade nor Pat Buchanan had the time or any real inclination to question what they were doing...a martyr, to the bitter end, to a "flawed" cause and a narrow, atavistic concept of conservative politics that has done more damage to itself and the country in less than six years than its liberal enemies could have done in two or three decades. -Hunter S. Thompson

I've never heard of this guy, but I'm sorry to hear about his death.



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90, wow he had a good innings



Yesterday America lost a friend.... Paul Harvey a man revered as a Radio Legend, has died. We will miss you and your voice on the airwaves. At least.... at least you are again with your angel.