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Highlights from the broadcasting career of Larry King

By Associated Press

Jan. 23, 2021

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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1992

U.S. Vice President Dan Quayle, holding a chart depicting economic growth, prepares to appear on CNN’s “Larry King Live” in Washington, as host Larry King looks on, left. On the show, Quayle pronounced the economy recovered and charged there has been “a calculated decision” by the television networks to convince Americans otherwise.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1992

Larry King, left, talks with Texas billionaire Ross Perot during a commercial break in the live broadcast of CNN's 'Larry King Live' in New York. King, who interviewed presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes during a half-century in broadcasting, has died at age 87. Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, tweeted that King died Saturday, Jan. 23, morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1993

Vice President Al Gore and Ross Perot talk with television talk host Larry King during a break on CNN’s “Larry King Live” show in Washington where Gore and Perot debated the North American Free Trade Agreement. Gore said that Perot would profit from the defeat of NAFTA.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1995

House Speaker Newt Gingrich, right, talks to host Larry King in Washington, prior to his appearance on CNN's "Larry King Live." Gingrich is having trouble keeping the Republican rank-and-file in line over tax-cut legislation he calls the Contract with America's Crowning jewel. GOP moderates teamed with conservative Democrats on Friday to insist that the tax reductions come only after the government proves it is on a path to balancing the budget before 2002.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1995

Former heavyweight champion Mike Tyson, right, shares a laugh with TV talk show host Larry King during the broadcasting of the "Larry King Live" show from inside the ring at the MGM Grand Gardens in Las Vegas. King, who interviewed presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes during a half-century in broadcasting, has died at age 87. Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, tweeted that King died Saturday, Jan. 23, morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1997

Defense attorney Milton Grimes, far right, gestures as he speaks with Kato Kaelin, second from right, Rev. Rosey Greer, second from left, and Larry King, far left, during a taping of the Larry King Live television program in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. The trio of guests, who are O.J. Simpson friends and acquaintances, were invited on the program to discuss Simpson's civil trial verdict.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1997

Denise Brown, sister of murder victim Nicole Brown Simpson, center, and John Q. Kelly, Brown family attorney in the O.J. Simpson civil trial, right, speaks with talk-show host Larry King, left, in Los Angeles hours after jurors assessed Simpson $25 million in punitive damages for the deaths of Nicole Brown Simpson and Ronald Goldman. King, who interviewed presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes during a half-century in broadcasting, has died at age 87. Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, tweeted that King died Saturday, Jan. 23, morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1999

Republican presidential candidate Texas Gov. George W. Bush jokes with CNN's Larry King after finishing the "Larry King Live" show from the Wildhorse Saloon in Nashville, Tenn. After 25 years of "Larry King Live," Larry King will hang up his suspenders with his last broadcast on Thursday, Dec. 16, 2010.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 1999

Talk show host Larry King wipes his eyes after laughing at a joke by comedy legend Jerry Lewis, on the set of "Larry King Live" at CNN Studios in the Hollywood section of Los Angeles. Lewis, the comedian and director whose fundraising telethons became as famous as his hit movies, has died. His publicist said Lewis passed away Sunday, Aug. 20, 2017, at age 91 in Las Vegas with his family by his side.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2000

Larry King, host of CNN's Larry King Live, asks a question to the Republican presidential candidates, from left, Sen. John McCain, Alan Keyes, and Gov. George W. Bush of Texas, during the Republican presidential debate in Columbia, S.C. King, who interviewed presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes during a half-century in broadcasting, has died at age 87. Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, tweeted that King died Saturday, Jan. 23, morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2000

Larry King talks with Microsoft President and CEO Bill Gates in the compnay's studio in Redmond, Wash. Gates is King's first interview of the new year.
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CNN VIA AP / 2005

Singer Sir Elton John, right, discusses his long music career, his upcoming performances at Caesar's Palace in Las Vegas, Nevada and his new album, "Peachtree Road" with talk show host Larry King during an exclusive interview on the CNN program "Larry King Live" at the CNN studios in Los Angeles.
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CNN VIA AP / 2005

In this image from television, cyclist Lance Armstrong, right, appears on CNN's "Larry King Live" by remote from New York to discuss recent allegations of doping. King conducted the interview from the studio in Los Angeles; while Armstrong and interviewer Bob Costas were in New York.
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CNN VIA AP / 2006

This video framegrab image taken from television shows CNN's Larry King, left, as he interviews Howard K. Stern, attorney for Anna Nicole Smith. Stern revealed on the show that he was the father of Anna Nicole Smith's newborn girl, who has been the couple's one "ray of hope" as they have grieved the death of her 20-year-old son in the Bahamas.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2007

Pop star Michael Jackson, center, poses with CNN's Larry King, right, and Rev. Jesse Jackson, left, on the red carpet during the RainbowPUSH Coalition Los Angeles 10th annual awards dinner celebrating Jesse Jackson's 66th birthday in Los Angeles.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2007

Larry King attends a screening of the environmental documentary "Planet in Peril," in New York. The documentary, about threats to the world's environment, is hosted by CNN anchor Anderson Cooper, chief medical correspondent Dr. Sanjay Gupta and Animal Planet host Jeff Corwin.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2007

Talk show host Larry King, left, joins Paul McCartney during the first anniversary of the Beatles Love at the Mirage hotel-casino in Las Vegas.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2007

CNN host Larry King, left, speaks to Democratic Presidential hopeful Sen. Barack Obama, D-Ill. after the Democratic presidential primary debate hosted by Saint Anselm College in Manchester, N.H.
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ROSE M. PROUSER/CNN VIA AP / 2007

Former New York city mayor Rudy Giuliani announces that he is a candidate for president of the United States as he is interviewed by talk show host Larry King, left, during a taping of the CNN program "Larry King Live" at the CNN studios in Los Angeles.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2009

Larry King, anchor of Larry King Live, throws out the ceremonial first pitch before the start of the baseball game between the Chicago Cubs and the Los Angeles Dodgers in Chicago.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2009

Artist Peter Max, left and Larry King, right, pose for a photograph at the Peter Max Studio in New York. The pop artist's work is on three floors of the museum part of the Clinton Presidential Center for a show that begins Monday and runs through May 25.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2010

Comedian and television host Bill Maher, left, poses alongside broadcaster Larry King after he received a star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame in Los Angeles.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2011

Larry King answers reporters' question at a press conference for Seoul Digital Forum in Seoul, South Korea. King, who interviewed presidents, movie stars and ordinary Joes during a half-century in broadcasting, has died at age 87. Ora Media, the studio and network he co-founded, tweeted that King died Saturday, Jan. 23, morning at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2011

Shawn King, left, Larry King and Joan Rivers, right, attend the Friars Club's Testimonial Dinner held in Larry's honor, in New York.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2011

Host Larry King attends the 70th Annual Peabody Awards at the Waldorf-Astoria Hotel in New York.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2011

Larry King attends the Friars Club's Testimonial Dinner held in his honor, in New York.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2011

Donald Trump, left, and Larry King arrive to the Comedy Central Roast of Trump in New York.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS / 2012

Larry King attends the Friars Club Roast of Betty White in New York.
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DAN STEINBERG/INVISION/AP / 2013

Television personality Larry King, left, and his wife Shawn King pose together at a surprise 80th birthday party for Mr. King at Dodgers Stadium in Los Angeles.
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RICHARD SHOTWELL/INVISION/AP / 2016

Larry King, right, and Shawn King arrive at the 43rd annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Westin Bonaventure Hotel in Los Angeles.
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RICHARD SHOTWELL/INVISION/AP / 2018

Larry King, left, and Carolyn Hennesy present the award for outstanding drama series writing team at the 45th annual Daytime Emmy Awards at the Pasadena Civic Center in Pasadena, Calif.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Flowers lie on the Hollywood Walk of Fame star of the late broadcasting giant Larry King, Saturday, Jan. 23, in Los Angeles. King, the host of "Larry King Live" on CNN for over 25 years, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles. He was 87.
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ASSOCIATED PRESS

Gregg Donovan, the former ambassador of Beverly Hills and a friend of the late broadcasting giant Larry King for over 30 years, keeps watch over King's star on the Hollywood Walk of Fame, Saturday, Jan. 23, in Los Angeles. King, the host of "Larry King Live" on CNN for over 25 years, died Saturday at Cedars-Sinai Medical Center in Los Angeles at age 87. "Larry was a legend in all aspects," Donovan said. "Any actor or performer, if you were on 'Larry King Live,' you knew you had made it, that you had arrived."

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