''The Rest of the Story'' was a Monday-through-Friday

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program originally hosted by

Paul Harvey Paul Harvey Aurandt (September 4, 1918 – February 28, 2009) was an American radio broadcaster for ABC News Radio. He broadcast ''News and Comment'' on mornings and mid-days on weekdays and at noon on Saturdays and also his famous ''The Rest o ...

. Beginning as a part of his newscasts during the

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and then premiering as its own series on the

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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." On the majority of radio stations, it often served as a mid-afternoon drive counterpart to Harvey's noontime ''News and Comment''. From its inception, the scripts for the series had been drafted and the broadcasts produced by Harvey's son

Paul Harvey Jr. Paul Harvey Aurandt Jr. (born 1948 or 1949), is an American pianist, radio broadcaster and a former host of ''News and Comment'' on Citadel Media, ABC Radio Networks. He is the only child of Paul Harvey and his wife Lynne Cooper Harvey, Lynne. Ha ...

, who in later years of his father's career also acted as a substitute host. Some of the radio stories were published in book form as ''

The Rest of the Story ''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 ABC Radio may re ...

'' and ''More of The Rest of the Story''. (On the back cover of ''More of The Rest of the Story'', the book is said to contain "True mysteries from history".) After the elder Harvey's death on February 28, 2009, ABC radio host

Doug Limerick Doug Limerick is an American radio personality. He has been a news correspondent for ABC Radio Networks since 1982. Career Limerick, a native of Shelby, North Carolina, started his career working the night shift, playing Top 40 music at WOHS rad ...

was chosen as the show's new host. ''The Rest of the Story'' was canceled after three weeks with Limerick as host.

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External links

The Paul Harvey Unofficial Archives
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