December
3, 1950
And Now You Know the Rest of
the Story
Conservative American radio
broadcaster Paul Harvey began his six days a week radio commentary, Paul Harvey
News and Comment. The program would continue for the next 58 years, and would
be on 1,200 radio stations at the height of its popularity. He broadcast News
and Comment on weekday mornings and mid-days, and at noon on Saturdays, as well
as his famous The Rest of the Story segments.
The Rest of the Story was a
Monday-through-Friday radio program originally hosted by Paul Harvey. Beginning
as a part of his newscasts during the Second World War and then premiering as
its own series on the ABC Radio Networks on May 10, 1976, The Rest of the Story
consisted of stories presented as little-known or forgotten facts on a variety
of subjects with some key element of the story (usually the name of some
well-known person) held back until the end. The broadcasts always concluded
with a variation on the tag line "And now you know the rest of the
story."
Harvey personalized the
radio news with his right-wing opinions, but laced them with his own
trademarks: a hypnotic timbre, extended pauses for effect, heart-warming tales
of average Americans and folksy observations that evoked the heartland, family
values and the old-fashioned plain talk one heard around the dinner table on
Sunday.
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