Earl Nightingale

Earl Clifford Nightingale (born March 12, 1921 in Los Angeles , California , † March 25, 1989 in Scottsdale , Arizona ) was an American radio commentator and motivational speaker .

Live and act

Earl Nightingale was born to Albert Victor Nightingale and Gladys Fae Nightingale. Hamer born. In 1938 he joined the US Marines and in 1941 survived the Japanese attack on the USS Arizona in Pearl Harbor . In 1945 he began working for the radio in Jacksonville , North Carolina while serving in the Navy . After leaving the military in 1946, he became a broadcaster for local station KTAR in Phoenix , Arizona . In 1949 he switched to the Columbia Broadcasting System (CBS) in Chicago as an announcer and joined WGN a year later. From 1950 to 1954 he spoke the Sky King in the radio adventure series of the same name and from 1950 to 1956 he played the Earl Nightingale Show , a 90-minute radio talk show . Then he fulfilled a childhood dream and stopped working at the age of 35. He returned three years later with the five-minute daily radio show Our Changing World , which was broadcast on over 1,000 radio stations and later also appeared on television. He accompanied the series until 1989 when he died of complications after heart surgery.

In 1950 he founded Earl Nightincale Inc. and in 1960 as a successor company with Lloyd Conant, the Nightingale Conant Corporation , among other things to market his motivational tapes . He was inducted into the Speaker Hall of Fame and in 1986 the NAB Broadcasting Hall of Fame. He also received the Toastmasters International Golden Gavel Award in 1976 and the Napoleon Hill Foundation's Gold Medal Award for Literary Excellence in 1987 . His motivational plate The Strangest Secret reached gold status in 1959 .

From 1942 to 1960 he was married to Mary Peterson, with whom he had a son and a daughter. From his second marriage to Lenarda Certa, 1962 to 1976, there was a son. In 1982 he married Diana Lee Johnson.

literature

• Nightingale, Earl (Clifford) 1921-1989. In: Susan M. Trosky (Ed.): Contemporary Authors. Volume 128, Gale Research Inc., Detroit [et al. a.] 1990, ISBN 0-8103-1953-5 , ISSN  0010-7468 , pp. 296-297 (with further references)
• Who Was Who in America. Volume 10: 1989-1993. Marquis Who's Who, New Providence, New Jersey 1993, ISBN 0-8379-0220-7 , p. 264
• Edgar B. Wycoff: Nightingale, Earl 1921-1989. In: Christopher H. Sterling (Ed.): The biographical encyclopedia of American radio. Routledge, New York [et. a.] 2011, ISBN 978-0-415-99549-8 , pp. 276–277 ( digitized version , with further references)