Background
Harvey was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis with a Bachelor and Master of Arts in English.
Harvey was born in Saint Louis, Missouri, and graduated from Washington University in Saint Louis with a Bachelor and Master of Arts in English.
Washington University in Saint Louis.
Dubbed the "First Lady of Radio," Harvey"s sixty year career in radio transformed American radio and television news format. In 1939, she went to work for KXOK. Paul Harvey invited her to dinner, proposed to her after a few minutes of conversation and from then on called her "Angel," even on his radio show. The two were married in 1940, and moved to WKZO in Kalamazoo, Michigan in 1941.
The couple moved to Chicago in 1945.
In 1997, Lynne Harvey was the first producer ever 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." While working on her husband"s radio show, she established 10 p.m. as the hour in which news is broadcast. She worked in television also, and created a television show called Dilemma which is acknowledged as the prototype of the modern talk show genre.
While working at Columbia Broadcasting System, she was among the first women to produce an entire newscast. In later years, she was best known as a philanthropist.
On May 17, 2007, Harvey told his radio audience that Angel had contracted leukemia.
Her death, at the age of 92, was announced by American Broadcasting Company radio on May 3, 2008. She really put him on track to have the phenomenal career that his career has been.".
Harvey was a member of Phi Beta Kappa at Washington University and was a former schoolteacher.