Posted by
Billy on Tuesday, March 03, 2009 8:39:21 PM
Paul Harvey, the news commentator and talk-radio pioneer whose staccato style made him one of the nation's most familiar voices, died Saturday in Arizona, according to ABC Radio Networks. He was 90. (
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Harvey died surrounded by family at a hospital in Phoenix, where he had a winter home, said Louis Adams, a spokesman for ABC Radio Networks, where Harvey worked for more than 50 years. No cause of death was immediately available.
Harvey had been forced off the air for several months in 2001 because of a virus that 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.
(Cal Thomas wrote with Harvey death it truly is the end of an the end of an era for that kind of radio, see
No One Can Replace the Great Paul Harvey. Check out the links below for more on the great Harvey. He will be missed and no one will ever replace him no matter how good they are.)
CLICK HERE for a week-long tribute to Paul Harvey, voiced by Gil Gross.
Statement by Former President George W. Bush
Statements from
Paul Harvey Jr. and
ABC Radio Networks President
Jim Robinson
Bio of Paul Harvey
Photos of Paul Harvey