"While broadcasting the news at WENR-AM in Chicago's Merchandise Mart in 1951, Harvey became friends with the building's owner, Joseph P. Kennedy. With a recommendation from the Kennedy-clan patriarch, the ABC Radio Network began using Harvey as a substitute newsman. In time, network affiliates began calling for more Harvey news broadcasts.
"'If it were up to Madison Avenue, I still don't think I'd be on the networks,' Harvey later told the Chicago Tribune. 'It was grass-roots support that brought me where I am. It's also ironic that the Kennedys, with whom I was not in agreement on so many things, had only their daddy to blame.'"
Dennis McLellan in the Los Angeles Times writes an obit for conservative broadcaster Paul Harvey.
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