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- ↑ Gleiser, Paul. What happened to Paul Harvey at 7:30 each morning?. KTBB news release. Undated. Archived July 13, 2011, at the Wayback Machine
- ↑ Adrian McCoy, "Behind the Voice: Paul Harvey's Son Makes Sure Listeners Get 'The Rest of the Story'". Pittsburgh Post-Gazette, May 9, 2001.
- ↑ Paul Harvey Aurandt Archived 2013-02-25 at the Wayback Machine biography at National Radio Hall of Fame (accessed 2013-07-12).
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