Paul Harvey Aurandt

 Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009), known as Paul Harvey

He broadcast News and Comment on mornings and mid-days on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays and also his famous The Rest of the Story segments. From 1951 to 2008, his programs reached as many as 24 million people per week. Paul Harvey News was carried on 1,200 radio stations, on 400 American Forces Network stations, and in 300 newspapers. Harvey did not host the show full-time after April 2008, when he came down with pneumonia. His wife died on May 3rd of that year, which caused him to prolong his time away from broadcasting. He voiced commercials and new episodes of The Rest of the Story and News & Comment during middays a few times a week, with his son handling mornings. Harvey was an avid pilot who served in the US Army Air Corps from December 1943 to March 1944. He was an Aircraft Owners and Pilots Association (AOPA) member for more than 50 years and would occasionally talk about flying to his radio audience. He was also a member of the Experimental Aircraft Association (EAA) and was frequently seen at EAA AirVenture in Oshkosh, Wisconsin.

Harvey was elected to the National Association of Broadcasters National Radio Hall of Fame and Oklahoma Hall of Fame, and appeared on the Gallup poll list of America's most admired men. In 2005, he was awarded the Presidential Medal of Freedom, the United States' most prestigious civilian award, by President George W. Bush. Harvey was married to his wife Lynn from 1940 until her death in 2008. Lynne Harvey was inducted into the Radio Hall of Fame, and had developed some of her husband's best-known features, such as "The Rest of the Story. She was also the first woman to receive a lifetime achievement award from the Chicago chapter of American Women in Radio and Television. Paul Harvey died on February 28, 2009, at age 90 at a hospital in Phoenix, Arizona, surrounded by family and friends. He is interred with his wife at Forest Home Cemetery in Forest Park, Illinois.