𝐀𝐍𝐃 𝐇𝐄𝐑𝐄’𝐒 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐑𝐄𝐒𝐓 𝐎𝐅 𝐓𝐇𝐄 𝐒𝐓𝐎𝐑𝐘

The man who said those words almost every night on the radio was a man named Paul Harvey. When he took notice of Joe Miller, he was the most-listened-to radio broadcaster in America, heard by 25 million people every day.

From his studios in Chicago, Illinois, Harvey would every day diligently sift through news reports available to newspapers and radio broadcasters. He was looking for compelling stories that might have been overlooked by other media outlets.

In early January, 1947, he found such a story, and it happened just 25 miles away in Griffith, Indiana.

Harvey’s programs were carried by 1,200 radio stations, plus an additional 400 stations of American Forces Radio. Famous well into the 1980’s, he had a popular syndicated newspaper column and a TV program.

Here’s the rest of Joe’s story, Paul Harvey’s tribute to Griffith’s own, Joe Miller, was broadcast on January 8, 1947.