King’s Humble Beginnings
Larry King was born in 1933 in Brooklyn, New York, to an Orthodox Jewish family. While the world knows the talk show host as Larry King, back then, he went by his birth name, Lawrence Harvey Zeiger. His mother Jennie worked as a garment worker, while his father, Aaron, ran a popular bar and grill that was the hotspot for many of the working-class families in the area.
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King and his father were quite close, which made the tragedy of June 9, 1943, all the more devastating. On that day, a young King was walking home from the local library when he spotted three police cars parked in front of his family’s apartment building.