Larry King

Larry King (November 19, 1933 – January 23, 2021) was an American writer, journalist and broadcaster.

Early life
King was born Lawrence Leibel Harvey Zeiger in Brooklyn, New York City to immigrant parents. His father came from Austria and his mother from Belarus. Both parents were Orthodox Jews.

Career
For many years, he hosted a nightly interview program on the Cable News Network (CNN) called Larry King Live. The program ran from 1985 to 2010. It was simulcast on Westwood One radio network until 2009.  Before that, he hosted a radio talk show on Mutual Radio called the Larry King Show. There he sometimes told funny stories. He interviewed some 40,000 politicians, athletes and entertainers.

Awards
King won several awards. He hosted a talk show called Politicking. That show is on Russia Television, an English language television network run by the Russian state.

Views
King stated he was liberal politically.

Personal life
King had a heart attack in 1987 and wrote two books about life with a heart disease. He founded the Larry King Cardiac Foundation in 1988 to help those without insurance cover the costs of treatment. His first show of Larry King Live was in 1985. He had interviewed every President of the United States (POTUS) since Gerald Ford. Meanwhile, Larry King married eight times. His wives include:

 Freda Miller (1952–1953)
 Annette Kaye (1961)
 Alene Akins (1961–1963)
 Mickey Sutphin (1963–1967)
 Alene Akins (1967–1972)
 Sharon Lepore (1976–1983)
 Julie Alexander (1989–1992)
 Shawn Southwick (from 1997)

Death
On December 22, 2020, King was hospitalized in Los Angeles with heart attack. King died at the age of 87 at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center on January 23, 2021 from sepsis. His ex-wife said the infection was not mistakenly related to heart attack. He also died of respiratory failure.

References

Other websites
 Larry King Live
 Biography  at CNN.com
 Larry King Cardiac Foundation 

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