Earl Nightingale (March 12, 1921 â€" March 25, 1989) was an American
radio speaker and author, dealing mostly with the subjects of human
character development, motivation, and meaningful existence. He was
the voice during the early 1950s of Sky King, the hero of a radio
adventure series, and was a WGN radio program host from 1950 to 1956.
Nightingale was the author of The Strangest Secret, which economist
Terry Savage has termed "…one of the great motivational books of all
time." Nightingale was born in Long Beach during 1921. His father,
Earl the 4th, abandoned his mother during 1933. After his father left,
his mother relocated the family to a tent in nearby Tent City.Diana
Nightingale is the widow of Earl Nightingale. She has continued
working with Earl's commercial themes.When Nightingale was seventeen
years old he joined the United States Marine Corps. He was an
instructor at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and was on the USS Arizona
during the attack on Pearl Harbor and was one of fifteen surviving
Marines aboard that day. Other than Pearl Harbor, it is unknown if
Nightingale experienced combat.
radio speaker and author, dealing mostly with the subjects of human
character development, motivation, and meaningful existence. He was
the voice during the early 1950s of Sky King, the hero of a radio
adventure series, and was a WGN radio program host from 1950 to 1956.
Nightingale was the author of The Strangest Secret, which economist
Terry Savage has termed "…one of the great motivational books of all
time." Nightingale was born in Long Beach during 1921. His father,
Earl the 4th, abandoned his mother during 1933. After his father left,
his mother relocated the family to a tent in nearby Tent City.Diana
Nightingale is the widow of Earl Nightingale. She has continued
working with Earl's commercial themes.When Nightingale was seventeen
years old he joined the United States Marine Corps. He was an
instructor at Camp Lejeune, North Carolina, and was on the USS Arizona
during the attack on Pearl Harbor and was one of fifteen surviving
Marines aboard that day. Other than Pearl Harbor, it is unknown if
Nightingale experienced combat.
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