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Radio, TV legend Larry King dies at 87

2021-01-23 | 🔗
Larry King, legendary talk show host and a broadcast pioneer, dies at the age of 87.
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Pete we begin this hour PETE. We begin this hour. Breaking news, legendary radio talk show host Larry King has died, Jedediah he passed away at a LOS Angeles hospital this morning at the age of eighty seven will here is a look back at Larry Kings legacy. What I do is ask questions for a living. What a way to make a living with his distippingive vote, voice and trademark suspenders Larry King ruled the talk show I missed, will Fidel Castro other than that. I have interviewed every world leader special treat tonight appear hour with Madonna. If we have to tell you who she is, you have severe problems. Laughter night after night, tens of thousands of interviews in depth chats with news makers, entertainers and presidents im delighted to be here. Larry king was born in Brooklyn New York in nineteen forty three and launched his broadcasting career as a radio dj in Miami in the 1950s he rose to fame with a
nationally syndicated late night, talk show in nineteen seventy eight and was perhaps best known for hosting Larry King live on CNN for a quarter century from nineteen. Eighty five, until he retired in twenty ten, but he wasnt off the air for long in twelve, he began hosting a show online called Larry King now, while some critics suggested he was a soft interviewer. He won numerous awards for his work, including an Emmy and two Peabodys. All I have done as an interviewer. Is I never brought opinions? I left my ego at the door. I never use offed the word I, the guest was the thing that counted. King was married eight times to seven women and had five children. In later years he suffered a heart attack and was treated for lung cancer, but through it all he never lost his sense of humor or his desire to keep asking the big questions. The one question I would ask God: okay: first, if Monica Lewandowski wants to come on, we
will bump God God. My first question to God will be. Did you have a son? Ladies and gentlemen, Larry King.
Transcript generated on 2021-01-23.