Tragic Details About Larry King

Larry King was nothing less than an American institution, known for his tough, direct, and fair interviews with heads of state, politicians, and movie stars. He was just as open and frank about his tumultuous personal life. This is the tragic real-life story of Larry King.

Larry King wasn't always Larry King. He was born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, where he spent his entire childhood and early adulthood into his twenties under his birth name of Lawrence Harvey Zeiger.

His father Aaron ran a popular, working-class, neighborhood bar and grill. He had a close relationship with his son Lawrence, which made the tragedy of June 9, 1943, all the more terrible.

According to his book My Remarkable Journey, young Larry King was walking home from the library when saw three police cars in front of his apartment building, hearing his mother screaming as he got closer to his home. He was stopped by a policeman, who informed the nine-year-old that his father had died of a heart attack. The elder Zeiger was only 44 years old.

As his father was the primary breadwinner for the family, which also included King's younger brother, the family's economic situation became dire, and they had to enroll in welfare programs to get by.

His father's death and its fallout sent the future Larry King into a spiral of sadness, and his schoolwork suffered so much, for so long, that college became out of the question. King managed to graduate high school and worked a series of odd jobs to support his mother and brother before he decided to head to Miami and pursue his dream of working in radio.

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Death in the family | 0:00
Scheming and scamming | 1:27
Coercive courtship | 3:04
(Un)lucky in love | 4:00
A real heartbreak | 4:59
More marriages | 6:14
The final rose | 7:07
List of ailments | 8:00
Going off air | 8:53
Two tragic goodbyes | 10:08

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