Paul Harvey

Paul Harvey, was an American radio broadcaster for the ABC Radio Networks. His listening audience was estimated at 22 million people a week. When Harvey was young, he made radio receivers. In 1933, at a high school teacher’s suggestion, he started working at KVOO in Tulsa. His first job was to help clean up. Eventually he was allowed to fill in on the air, reading commercials and news. He attended the University Of Tulsa. In 1940, Harvey 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 in Hawaii when the Japanese attacked Pearl Harbor. Harvy sereved in World War II. After being discharged he moved to chicago. Harvey died February 28, 2009.