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The Rest of the Story Archives
The Rest of the Story (TROTS) had been a staple of Paul Harvey from the time it was introduced in May 1976 though Paul Harvey's death in February 2009. This usually aired Monday through Friday of each week in the early to late afternoon, and sometimes was repeated in the early evening. Each broadcast started with "You know what the news is, in a minute you're going to hear the REST of the STORY". This was followed by a 30 second commercial and then the story itself. Without the intro and commercial. they are approxmiately 3 minutes and 45 seconds long.
These were normally pre-recorded well in advance, while the daily morning and noon news was recorded earlier in the day (with the exception of the Saturday news which was recorded the day before). TROTS stories were written by Paul Harvey Jr. and were hosted by either Paul, or in later years by Paul Jr. as a substitute host. Following Paul's death, Doug Limerick was chosen to be the show's new host, but it was cancelled three weeks after Paul's death.
The reason why TROTS was unique was the fact that each story had a unique twist, and was "verified" to be true (though some question the validity of that statement). In any case, they were entertaining.
Often times Paul would do a revisit on the same subject. These are denoted below by a number following the subject name.
In order to save server space, these files have been stored in ZIP format compressed files by the first letter of the story name (we're not sure on the exact name for some of these, so it's an educated guess). Click on these to go to the off-site cloud storage facility and download them to your hard drive. Use WinZIP or PKZIP to uncompress these MP3 files your hard drive.
The stories that were hosted by Paul Harvey Jr. are noted below. Otherwise they were by Paul Harvey.
Note: These files are stored on an off-site "cloud" storage site to save storage space. Maybe eventually they'll be stored here too.
PLEASE READ THIS NOW!!! These ZIP files are ENCRYPTED with a PASSWORD. The password for these files is a particular person's FIRST and LAST names, all one word, all lower case. Take a wild guess what the name is? (grin). I had to do this to prevent stealing by other websites. Thanks for your understanding.
Instructions:
1. Download the selected file from the "cloud server".
2. Use WinZip or PKZip to uncompress the file. (You can also use 7 Zip which is totally free.)
3. When prompted, use the password to decrypt. (Remember: First and Last name, all one word, all lower case.)
Abbott and Costello
Abner Doubleday
A-Bomb Musician
Aborted Abortion
Abraham Lincoln
Abraham Lincoln 2 (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Abraham Lincoln 3
Abraham Lincoln (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Acid Lake (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Actor On Death Row
Actor Speech Impediment
Actor Willie (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Actress Biographer
Admiral Lord Nelson
Adolph Hitler 2
Adolph Hitler (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Aesop
Agatha Christie
Agnostic Inventor (Paul Harvey Jr.)
AIDS Cure
Albert Einstein
Alcatraz (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Alcohol Fuel (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Alexander Graham Bell
Alexander Hamilton
Allergic Golfer (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Alternating Current
Amazing Memory (Paul Harvey Jr.)
American Flag
American Idol (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ancient Childproof
Ancient Forests (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ancient Inventor (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ancient Scalpel
Ancient Snowstorm
Andorra Military (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Andrew Carnegie (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Andrew Jackson
Andrew Jackson 2 (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Andrew Johnson
Antique SUV (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Archduke Ferdinand
Arizona Biltmore
Arizona (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Armand Hammer (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Arnold Palmer (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Arthur Conan Doyle 2
Arthur Godfrey (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Arthur Murray
Artist Poet (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Aspartame
Aspirin
Atilla The Hun
Auburn Tiger
Babe Didrikson
Babe Ruth 2 (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Babe Ruth (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Bad Golf
Bar Exam
Barbara Walters
Barbed Wire
Barbra Streisand
Baseball Brothers
Basketball
Basketball Hero
Bat Masterson (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Bath Tub
Before Baseball (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ben Franklin Electricity (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Benedict Arnold
Benjamin Franklin
Benjamin Franklin 2
Benjamin Franklin 3
Benjamin Franklin 4
Benjamin Franklin (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Benjamin Franklin Secret Weapon
Bermuda
Bernie Baruch
Better Than Lincoln
Bill Clinton
Billy Joel
Bing Crosby (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Biological Warfare
Birds Nest Soup
Birdseye (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Birth of Freedom
Bjorn Borg
Black Beauty
Blind Companion
Blind Horse
Blind Mechanic
Bob Dylan
Bob Griese (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Bob Hope
Boeing Author (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Brahms Lullaby
Brave Light That Wont Go Out (full)
Bridal Shower
Bruce Devlin
Buckingham Palace (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Buckminster Fuller
Bulova Wrist Watch
Buried Treasure
Butterfly Migration
Calculator Contest (Paul Harvey Jr.)
California
Calvin Coolidge
Calvin Peete
Capitol Corpses (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Captain Kidd
Car Genius
Carribean Christmas
Carrie Nation
Carrier Pigeon
Cary Grant
Casey At The Bat
Cassius Clay
Cassius Clay 2
Cassius Clay 3
Cerebral Palsy
Chaplin Cohorts (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Chariots of Fire
Charles Bronson (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Charles Darwin
Charles Dickens
Charles Dickens 2
Charles Dickens 3
Charles Lee
Charles Lindburgh (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Charles Manson
Cher
Chess Match (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Chester A Arthur
Chicago Fire
Chicago Hero (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Chicago Mayhem
Chicago (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Child Proof Cap (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Chimp Intelligence
Christopher Columbus
Chuck Norris
Cigarette Ads (Paul Harvey Jr.)
City of Is (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Clark Gable (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Clint Eastwood
Clint Eastwood 2
Clinton Bush
Clockmaker
Cocoa Chanelle (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Cole Porter
Columbus Hurricane
Concrete
Confederates near Washington (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Conway Twitty (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Counterfeit Money Ignored
Cracker Jacks
Crash Avoided
Cremated Director (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Crystal Castle
Cupie Doll (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Custers Last Stand
Cyrano de Bergerac
Dan Pastorini (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Daniel Webster
Davy Crockett
Deaf Percussionist
Debbie Reynolds
Desert Water
Despised Artist
Diana Spencer
Dinah Shore
Dinosaur Size
Disney World
Disneyland (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Dolphin Navigator
Dolphin Rescue
Dont Give Up The Ship
Dont Give Up The Ship 2
Doris Day
Doris Day 2
Double Hanging (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Downtown Atlanta
Dr Livingston I Presume
Dr Seuss
Dr Seuss 2
Dr Spock
Dracula (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Dudley Moore
Dwight Eisenhower
Early Educator
Early Innoculation
Easter Parade (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Eddie Rickenbacker
Egyptian Cinderella
Einstein Refrigerator
Eleanor Roosevelt
Elijah Pierce
Elizabeth Taylor
Ellen G White
Elliot Ness
Elvis Presley
Emancipation Proclamation
Enemy Wife
Enrico Fermi (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Entombed 31 Years (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Erle Stanley Gardner
Eugene Oneill
Evil Wickedness
Ex-Presidents
Faber Pencil
Favorite Author
Favorite Christmas
FDR Devil
FedEx
Felix The Fire Fighter (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Fidel Castro
Fidel Castro 2 (Full)
Fifteen Golf Clubs
First Car Accident (Paul Harvey Jr.)
First Miss America (Paul Harvey Jr.)
First Woman Mayor
First Woman Voter
Fonda Stewart
Forty's Idol
Frank Lary
Frank Sinatra
Frank Sinatra (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Franz Liszt
French Potato (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Frisbee (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Gallo Wine
Gardener King
Garfield
Gary Cooper
Gary Player
Gas Crisis
Gene Roddenberry
General Custer
General Custer 2
General Custer 3
Gentle Legacy
George Lucas
George Patton
George Patton 2
George Washington Youth
Gerald Ford
German Capture
Gettysburg Alternative (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Gideon Bible
Gin
Ginger Rogers
Girls Football
Giuseppe Verdi
Glacier (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Glamour Gender (Paul Harvey Jr.)
God Bless America (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Golda Meir (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Gone With the Wind
Goodyear
Gordon Parks (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Grace Kelley
Grandfathers Clocks
Grandma Moses (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Grapes Of Wrath
Graumans Chinese Theater
Gringo
Groucho Marx (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Grover Cleveland
Grover Cleveland 2
Handicapped Athlete (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Handicapped Swimmer (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Hank Aaron
Hank Williams
Harold Robbins
Harrison Ford
Harry Houdini (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Harry Truman (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Harvard Cowboy (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Haunted Theologian
Hawaii
Healing Laughter
Helen Keller (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Herbert Hoover
Hertz (Paul Harvey Jr.)
High Heels (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Hillary Clinton (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Himalayas
Hitler's Pilot
Hoagy Charmichael
Hope Diamond (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Horatio Nelson
Horse Crazy
Horse Cured
Horse Race (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Humphrey Bogart
IBM
Ice Ages
Ice Cream (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ice Cream Sundae (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Iceberg
Iceberg That Sank Titanic
Idaho Colorado
Independent State
Indian Kidnapping
Indy 500
Innovative Criminologist (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ivory Snow (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ivory Soap (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Iwo Jima
J. Edgar Hoover
Jack Benny 2
Jack Benny (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Jack Daniel
Jack Dempsey 2
Jack the Ripper
Jacques Cousteau
Jacques Cousteau 2
Jacques dAmboise
Jacques d'Amboise
James Arness
James Audubon
James Bond
James Garfield
Jamestown
Japanese Assassination
Jay Leno
Jello
Jerry Lewis
Jerry Trailer
Jesse James Income
Jesse Owens
Jewish Swastika
Jim Bakker
Jim Carrey 2
Jim Harrison
Jimmy Cagney
Jimmy Cagney 2
Jimmy Cagney 3
Jinxed Ship (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Joan Rivers
Joe Namath
Johann Sebastian Bach
John Adams
John Calvin
John D Rockefeller (Paul Harvey Jr.)
John Dillinger
John Greenleaf Whittier
John Keats
John L Sullivan
John Quincy Adams
John Quincy Adams 2
John Travolta (Paul Harvey Jr.)
John Wayne
John Wesley
Johnny Mathis (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Johnny Miller (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Johnny Unitas
Josh Tatum
Judy Garland
Julia Child (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Julie Andrews
Julio Iglesias
Julius Caesar
Kellogg
Ken Venturi
Kidney Dialysis
King Wenceslas
Knute Rockne (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Lady Bird Johnson
Lane Bryant
Lane Bryant 2
Laptops
Las Claritas Venezuela
Lassie
Law School (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Lee Harvey Oswald
Lenin
Lenin 2
Lennon Sisters
Leonard Bernstein (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Leotard (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Liberace
Life Savers (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Life-Saving Payback (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Light Bulb
Lincoln Advisor (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Lincoln War Advisor
Lincoln's Beard (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Lincolns Bodyguard
Lincoln's Bodyguard
Lipton Tea (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Little Richard
Lizzy Borden
London Bridge
Loretta Lynn (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Lou Holtz
Louis Armstrong
Louis Pasteur (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Louis XIV Map
Luciano Pavarotti (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Lyndon Johnson
M1 Rifle
Machiavelli
Macys
Man of War (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Manhattan (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Marconi Surprise
Margarine
Mario Andretti
Mark McGwire
Mark Twain
Mark Twain 2
Marksmanship (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Marlene Dietrich (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Martin Luther
Mary Todd Lincoln
MASH Hawkeye
Mason Dixon (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Massachusetts Trial
Mata Hari
Maurice Ravel
Max Baer
Maxims (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Mayflower
Mayo Clinic
Medieval Fonda
Melba Toast (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Mercedes (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Merle Haggard
Michael Jordan
Michael Landon
Michaelangelo
Mick Jagger
Mickey Mantle
Mickey Mouse
Mickey Rooney
Mickey Spillane
Minnie Pearl
Minnie Pearl 2
Missing President
Modern Christopher Columbus
Modesto
Monaco
Mount Aire
Mozart
Murphy Bed (Paul Harvey Jr.)
My Fair Lady
Mysterious Photograph
Naive Politician
Naturalist Irony
Nebraskan Actor
Neiman-Marcus
Nelson Rockefeller (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Nero
New York City
Nineteenth Century Plague
Noah Webster
Noahs Ark (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Nobel Prize
Noel Coward (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Norman Rockwell (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Norman Schwartzkopf
North Pole
Notre Dame Football (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Nude Bride
Nylon
Obsessed Author
Ocean Rescue
Ohio (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ohio River Bridge (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Oil Wells
Olympic Disqualification
On Crutches
One Armed Pianist
Opera Carmen (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Oprah Winfrey
Origins of Thanksgiving
Pacific Paradise
Pancho Villa
Paradise Lost
Paralysis by Analysis
Pat Nixon
Patrick Henry
Patriot Farmer
Paul McCartney
Paul McCartney 2
Paul McCartney 3
Paul Newman
Paul Newman (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Pearl Buck
Pennsylvania (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Perry Mason (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Pete Fountain
Philadelphia Story
Placebo Effect
Platinum (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Police Dogs (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Polio
Polish Strikers
Pope John Paul I (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Pope John XII
Popeye
Popeye 2
Possible US Invasion
Prince Charles
PT Barnum
Publishers
Queen Elizabeth
Queen Elizabeth 2
Queen of England
Radio
Rags to Riches
Railroad Inventors
Railroad Telegraphy
Ralph Nader Mother (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ralph Neves DOA
Rasputin
Ravel
Reagan Father (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Real End of WWII
Reggie Jackson
Regis Philbin (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Reindeer (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Renoir
Rescued General
Rescued Jews
Rich Janitor
Richard Daley (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Richard Nixon
Richard Nixon 2
Richard Simmons
Richard Wagner
Robert E Lee
Robert Fulton
Robert Goddard
Robert Kennedy
Robert Louis Stevenson
Robert Morris
Rocky Bleier
Rocky Marciano
Roger Williams
Ronald Reagan
Ronald Reagan (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Rosetta Project
Rosetta Stone
Roy Acuff (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Roy Rogers
Rudolph Valentino
Sahara Desert (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Salton Sea
Samuel Beckett
Samuel Colt
Sandra Day OConnor
Sanka Coffee
Santa Ana
Saxaphone (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Scared to Death
Schick
School Do It All
Scott Hamilton
Seabiscuit
Sedona Arizona
Shell Shock
Ship Salvage
Sidney Poitier (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Sigmund or Not (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Silent Night
Silhouette (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Sincere (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Singapore
Singing Mouse (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle
Slave Escape (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Smoke Filled Room
Snow White
Song Writer (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Sonia Henie
Soybeans
Spacecraft Speed
Spaghetti (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Speed Walking
Spirit of 76
Spy Tree
Squirrel Informant
Staged Coup (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Stamp Forgery
Stan Laurel (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Stephen King
Strange Rescuer
Stronger Than Kevlar
Struck By Lightning
Struck Out Yankees
Sultana Disaster
Susan Lucci
Swiss Secret
Sybaris vs Croton
Symphonie Fantastique (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Synthetic Fuels Act
Ted Horn Racer
Ted Turner
Ted Williams
Teddy Bear
Teddy Rosevelt
Tennis Great
Terrorists Executed
Thats a Doozy
The Bastille
The Beatles
The Big Bomb
The Day The Music Died (Paul Harvey Jr.)
The Edsel
The Necktie
The Penny (Paul Harvey Jr.)
The Starving Time
The Umbrella (Paul Harvey Jr.)
The White House
Theodore Roosevelt 2 (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Theodore Roosevelt (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Thomas Edison
Thomas Edison 2
Thomas Edison 2 (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Thomas Edison 3
Thomas Edison 4
Thomas Edison 5
Thomas Edison (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Thomas Jefferson (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Tin Man of Oz
Tinker to Evers to Chance
Titanic
Titanic Fire
To The Ballgame (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Tombstone Prediction
Topless Statue
Truman Mother
Ty Cobb (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Ulysses Grant
Ulysses Grant 2
Underwear Salesmen (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Uneducated Microbiologist
Unjust Reputation
Unstable Scientist
Unusual Advisor
Unusual Prohibition
Upton Sinclair
US Shillings (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Vacuum Cleaner
Valuable Forgeries (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Variety Charity
Vaudeville Partnership
Verrazano-Narrows Bridge (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Veteran Flyer
Viking Explorations
Walt Disney
Walt Disney 2
Walt Whitman
Walter Cronkite
War Cabs (Paul Harvey Jr.)
War Prediction
War Protestor
Warplane Survivor
Washington Crossing Delaware 2
Washington DC
Washington's Forbidden Vice
Washington's Christmas Attack
Whistler's Father
Will Rogers
Will Rogers 2
Will Rogers (Paul Harvey Jr.)
William Faulkner
William Howard Taft (Paul Harvey Jr.)
William Shakespeare
William the Conqueror
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill 2 (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Winston Churchill (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Wizard of Oz
Woman President (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Woodrow Wilson
Woody Allen (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Woolworth
World War II Deception (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Wright Brothers
Wright Brothers 2
Wrong Way Corrigan (Paul Harvey Jr.)
WWII Start
Xavier Cougat (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Yellow Rose of Texas
Yes Virginia
You Can't Come Inside
You're Joshing Me
You're Joshing Me
Zachary Taylor
Ziegfeld Director
Zion National Bank (Paul Harvey Jr.)
Zipper
Page Last Updated March 23, 2012