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Paul Harvey was born in 1918 and was a radio broadcaster for ABC Radio until his death. He was in charge of the News and Comment segment which was broadcast in the morning and at noon during the week and noon on Saturdays. When he was in high school, one of the teachers noticed he had a great voice and he was recommended for a job at KVOO in 1933 when he was just 14. He started working as a cleaner but he later got a stint reading news and commercials at the station.
When he went to university, he continued working as the stations' announcer and he was later promoted and became a program director. He was also a station manager at KSAL which was a local station that was based in Kansas. After leaving Kansas, he went to Oklahoma where he became a newscaster at KOMA. His next job was with KXOK which was based in St-Louis. At this station he worked as a roving reporter and Director of Special Events.
After his stint at KXOK, he was sent to Hawaii to report about the United States Navy when they left for the Pacific. He enlisted in the army but only served between December 1943 and March 1944. When he returned from the navy, he started working for WENR which is an ABC affiliate and he became one of the most popular newscasters in the Chicago. After the Second World War, he started hosting a postwar employment program called Jobs for G.I. Joe. In 1946, he included the Rest of the Story as a tag line for the in-depth feature stories.
One of the popular topics that Paul Harvey covered during his broadcasts was security laxity especially at the Argonne National Library which is a nuclear test site near Chicago.
Paul Harvey's on-air persona was emphatic and some of the phrases he liked to use were Reel Two and Reel Three which referred to the segments of his broadcast. He was also known for his catchy phrases when he was starting his programs. His ability to change from informative content to commercial ones was very controversial. Paul Harvey did not see any difference between advertising and any other news and this is one of the reasons why he often advertised products that he believed in and even conducted interviews with people from the companies that produced them.
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