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Guaranteed Human.

This is Lee Habib, and this is Our American Stories,

the show where America is the star and the American

people. Up next, the story of a truly iconic name in American broadcasting and a personal

hero of mine, and we're talking about Paul Harvey. Here to tell the story is Stephen Mansfield,

author of Paul Harvey's America.

Now let's get into it, as Paul Harvey would say, the rest of the story.

The breadth of the history that he interacted with is one of the pillars of greatness of Paul Harvey's life.

He's born in 1918.

Now, that's the year World War I ended. He doesn't die until 2009 at the age of 90. Think about the fact that he was on the air

almost every day from 1945 until the end of his life. He would have talked about, and this was a major part of his rise, would have talked about

the returning GIs and there need to get jobs.

He would have talked about the rise of communism and the Whitaker Chambers case.

During the Vietnam era, he would have commented daily on the Milai massacre, on the Vietnam

war on every presidential campaign. He was on the air and gave beautiful monologues around the time of the Kennedy assassination,

with riots, with the rise of the civil rights movement, and certainly with Watergate,

he was commenting every day, comforting the country, chastising the evil-doers every single day

for almost 70 years of American history and a time of great change and upheaval.

Paul Harvey is commenting on everything from technology to politics, to trends, to religious themes.

And again, think about this every single day.

This was just what people looked Paul Harvey to do.

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