(OMED: This came in the mail from our pal George, whose last name will remain hidden in case Paul Harvey never said what you're about to read.  We heard yesterday that Sean Hannity enjoyed the Bill Gates advice to youth piece, whether Gates wrote it, or spoke it, or not.  We agree completely with Hannity.  No matter who wrote it, it was great advice. As to what follows, there is a crude quality to the text that causes us to believe it is either a complete  fabrication, or a poor transcript of an original Harvey broadcast segment.  It is also possible that it is real.)

From: Paul Harvey--The Rest of the Story 
Date: Sat, 22 Jun 2002 23:03:41 -0500 

THIS WILL OPEN YOUR EYES.
By Paul Harvey - Conveniently Forgotten Facts

   Back in 1969 a group of Black Panthers decided that a fellow black
panther...named Alex Rackley... needed to die. Rackley was suspected of
disloyalty. 
   Rackley was first tied to a chair. Once safely immobilized, his friends
tortured him for hours by, among other things, pouring boiling water on
him. 
   When they got tired of torturing Rackley, Black Panther member Warren
Kimbo took Rackley outside and put a bullet in his head. Rackley's body
was later found floating in a river about 25 miles north of New Haven,
Conn. 

   Perhaps at this point you're curious as to what happened to these Black
Panthers. In 1977, that's only eight years later, only one of the killers
was still in jail. The shooter, Warren Kimbro, managed to get a
scholarship to Harvard, and became good friends with none other than Al
Gore. He later became an assistant dean at an Eastern Connecticut State
College. 
   Isn't that something? 
   As a '60s radical you can pump a bullet into someone's head, and a few
 years later, in the same state, you can become an assistant college dean! 
   Only in America! 
   Erica Huggins was the lady who served the Panthers by boiling the water
for Mr. Rackley's torture. Some years later Ms. Huggins was elected to a
California School Board. 

   How in the world do you think these killers got off so easy? Maybe it was
in some part due to the efforts of two people who came to the defense of
the Panthers. 
   These two people actually went so far as to shut down Yale University
with demonstrations in defense of the accused Black Panthers during their
trial. 
   One of these people was none other than Bill Lan Lee. Mr. Lee, or Mr. Lan Lee, as the case may be, isn't a college dean. He isn't a member of a
California School Board. He is now head of the US Justice Department's
Civil Rights Division, appointed by none other than Bill Clinton. 
   O.K., so who was the other Panther defender? 

   Is this other notable Panther defender now a school board member? Is this
other Panther apologist now an assistant college dean? 
   No, neither! 
   The other Panther defender was, like Lee, a radical law student at Yale
University at the time. She is now known as the "smartest woman in the
world." 
   She is none other than the Democratic senator from the State of New
York----our former First Lady, the incredible Hillary Rodham Clinton.! 

   And now, as Paul Harvey said; You know "the rest of the story". 

OMED: Here's a charming Paul Harvey story we ran across whilst trying to find out if that piece above was from the man, himself.  This piece is genuine Americana, and of special interest to my fellow HAMS.).

THE HOME FORUM
My Father's Heathkit Home For Paul Harvey
 by Terry Miller Shannon

   I grew up with Paul Harvey. Any lunch-hour conversation with Dad had an automatic intermission in it. We could be talking about anything, including world peace, but when Dad's internal alarm went ding! and he reached for his radio, we swallowed our words to hear, "This is Paul Harvey. Stand by for news!" Any attempt to continue the conversation met with a fierce look from Dad and a hissed, "Paul Harvey!" All thoughts were held until the sign-off, "Good day!" 
   "All of you quit talking mid-word when your dad turned his radio on!" one of my friends marveled after eating lunch with the Millers. "As if he'd flipped your volume off!" 
   "Paul Harvey," I said, shrugging.

Click here to read the rest of the story.

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